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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

Table of ContentsTungsten Assaying Method 1Notes on Tungsten Assay Method 1Tungsten Assaying Method 2Tungsten Assay Method 3 In dealing with wolfram ores and concentrates, we

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Gold Extraction

Fire Assaying Gold Alloys

Table of ContentsScorification of AlloysFire Assaying of AmalgamsFire Assaying Platinum Group ElementsPlatinum Gold Alloys Fire AssayingFire Assaying Palladium-Gold AlloysFire Assaying Rhodium and Iridium-Gold AlloysAssaying Tellurium CompoundsWet Assay Methods

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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

Table of ContentsGeologyTest WorkMill ConstructionMiningCrushingGrindingFlotationReagentsThickening and FilteringSamplingTailing DisposalLaboratory The San Juan Mountains of Western Colorado are often referred to as the “Switzerland of America.” Among

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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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Laboratory Procedures

Cupellation

Table of ContentsCupellation ProcedureCupellation TemperatureHow to Prepare of the Assay Piece for Cupellation A coke Cupellation furnace still in use at the Mint is shown in front

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