Drills and Mills: Precious Metal Mining and Milling Methods of the Frontier West

Precious metal (gold and silver) mining and milling methods of the frontier American west between apx. 1848-1900. Includes chapters on: Placer mining (panning, hydraulic mining, dredging); Hardrock mining (drilling, blasting, loading, hauling, hoisting, illumination, ventillation, tunnels, costs); Mining details (timbering, pumping, explosives, chronological development of machine drills); transportation, power, fuel, assaying, sampling; Milling processes (amalgamation, patio, Washoe, Reese River, chlorination, Kiss, cyanide); Smelting, refining, minting, quicksilver, zinc; Mill Machinery (arrastras, stamps, pans, concentrating machinery including buddles, Wilfley tables, and Frue vanners, roasting furnaces); Mines and Mining Districts; Occupational Hazards; Smelting chemistry; Wages and the Cost of Living; Annual Metal Production and Price for gold, silver, lead, copper, mercury, and zinc; References (265)Meyerriecks, Will is the author of 'Drills and Mills: Precious Metal Mining and Milling Methods of the Frontier West', published 2003 under ISBN 9780971438316 and ISBN 0971438315.