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Laboratory Procedures

Parting the Assay Buttons

The assay buttons are flattened by a hammer weighing about 7 lbs., with a convex face, on an anvil kept quite bright and clean and

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Gold Extraction

How to Make Gold

The purest gold obtainable is required for use as standards or check pieces in the assay of gold bullion. The following method of preparing it

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Laboratory Procedures

Assaying Tungsten Determination

In dealing with wolfram ores and concentrates, we identified 3 three determination methods for the estimation and Assaying Tungsten that are discussed below are well known,

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Gold Extraction

Fire Assaying Gold Alloys

It is often impracticable to apply the ordinary parting assay to the examination of low-standard alloys of gold with other metals. These are then tested

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Concentrator Manuals/Procedures

Copper Lead Zinc Mining

Design and Construction The mill design and construction was accomplished through the combined efforts of Equipment Company in Colorado, Equipment Company (Peru) S. A., and

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Concentrator Manuals/Procedures

How is Copper Ore Processed

In 1948 Trefoil was privileged to publish an Engineering Notebook Bulletin on Development and Pilot Plant Operations at the Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd., Chingola,

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Flowsheets & Flowcharts

Poly-metallic Process Plant Design

The San Juan Mountains of Western Colorado are often referred to as the “Switzerland of America.” Among the many mining properties in this area is

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Equipment

Bone Ash Cupels

In order to get a preliminary view of the question of gold absorption in cupelling gold bullion, certain samples of very pure gold, which were

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