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They spoke under their breath, but enough was gathered to satisfy the curious crowd that See Yup's pile of tailings was rich beyond their expectations. The committee had seen with their own eyes gold taken out of the sand and gravel to the amount of twenty dollars in the two short hours of their examination. And the work had been performed in the stupidest, clumsiest, yet PATIENT Chinese way.
Jimmy was a cowboy with cartridge-belt and pistols. Lucy and Barbara were Night and Morning, with stars on their heads. Mr. Sanford was Uncle Jonathan. Mr. Hale was an Indian chief. Jimmy's debts were more than paid, and a happier boy was not to be found in the state of California. After this there were plenty of free entertainments on the tailings.
When there was nothing else to do, one could always "screen tailings." That is to say, he could shovel up the dried sand that had washed down to the ravine through the troughs and dash it against an upright wire screen to free it from pebbles and prepare it for working over.
The men looked at each other with eyes sparkling with excitement, and then Grainger poured the gold out upon a clean plate for closer examination. "Why," exclaimed Scott, "that means those tailings would go ten ounces to the ton!"
This expended money, however, may yet be returned, for plans have been set afoot for leaching copper treasure out of the tailings banks. The first water was struck at a depth of 330 feet and better flows were secured with deeper borings down to 1000 feet.
In fact it was casually alleged by some that Uncle Ben eked out the scanty "grub wages," he made by actual mining, in reworking and sifting the tailings at odd times a degrading work hitherto practised only by Chinese, and unworthy the Caucasian ambition.
The process of extracting gold from lode stuff and tailings by means of cyanide of potassium is now largely used and may be thus briefly described: It is chiefly applied to tailings, that is, crushed ore that has already passed over the amalgamating and blanket tables.
GROBLAAR asked whether an aërial tram was a balloon or whether it could fly through the air. The only objection that the Chairman had to urge against granting the tram was that the Company had an English name, and that with so many Dutch ones available. Mr. June 18. On the application for a concession to treat tailings, Mr.
His eyes leaped from moundlike piles of tailings, the powdery crush spit out by the concentrating mills, to boulder-like heaps of rocks that had been wheeled away to save the teeth of the mills, and his ears turned distraught from the groaning clank of unwieldy iron tubs, swinging up through skeleton shafts, to the sputtering plunk-plunk of drill engines and the booming roar of machinery.
"Now you go ahead and raise the stone, and as soon as I am a bit stronger I'll start off for the Bay and buy what I want in the way of screens, grinding pans, quicksilver, and other gear. I'm almost convinced that with new, fine screens we shall get good results out of the stone, and if we are disappointed, then well tackle that heap of tailings.
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