The Cause of Rustiness and of Some of the Losses in Working Gold
- Organization:
- The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
- Pages:
- 5
- File Size:
- 282 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 1881
Abstract
THERE has always been a-theory among those working placer mines that gold is both found " rusty," and becomes so under treatment, by which they mean, not that gold becomes coated with oxide of gold, bat that it is either coated superficially or alloyed with sortie substanee 'which prevents the ,contact with mercury, and thus precludes the possibility of amalgamation. To such conditions of the
Citation
APA: (1881) The Cause of Rustiness and of Some of the Losses in Working Gold
MLA: The Cause of Rustiness and of Some of the Losses in Working Gold. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1881.