Field Testing for Gold and Silver: A Practical Manual for Prospectors and Miners (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Field Testing for Gold and Silver: A Practical Manual for Prospectors and Miners The more I worked with prospectors the more convinced I became that the usual blow-pipe sets prepared for colleges, etc., were much too complicated and too expensive for the field, and that a simpler and cheaper set of apparatus was desirable. How this want may be met I have endeavoured to show in the following pages. I do not claim, nor could I claim, any originality for the pan-amalgamation process, but by introducing a cheap and effective little balance, the procedure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.