| Show lOLl GOLD IN TiE TIIE WORLD In 1156 I it would fairly staggered an n expert In the production of 01 gout oll to hal have been II told that In the rand where camp then wa was wasand and now I is there ther awaIt awaIted ed the miner an n accumulation ot of tIme the Precious metal whIch b be tour four times the Ibl amount ot of al nil that lla has been obtained front the Australian go gold goldfield field feld It H i only within tb the last lv live though that thAI this astounding fact bs has been proved The frt proof of oC I It ha hiss been beena a long ant and expensIve proe process which r calved I its crowning touch only when one ot of the coty costly boreholes rache 1 a depth or of feet CHt Then MIen I It became Ame a matter mUr ot of t calculation that when the dtp deep let letot ot of the lie mine were ure worked there would be a total yield to 10 tIme the value alue of oC and I it b has been 0 I II further calculated that when the Rand RandIs I Is filI fully worked by additional mines Yet vet to b be sunk Ink the total yield ma may probably reach ah 1100 And AmI that nih I be much more Inure than the yield ot of and Australia together TIme The Ild gold is III so 0 finely scattered throughout the ort ore that In ord order r to ob laIn tam a cuu cubic inch Inh of oC the Precious Ieta metal I Inu nu flu 1011 less than holt half a million cubi cubic ot of solid old rok rock ha have to l be crushed and Pounded up soil ni round ground Into line Ind sand Th The machinery fur tor such luch work Is ot of courle course ver very though I it Is only one portion ot of the various rou cOi costly I al aim which ale are In at al Wit In fact there ther I is to b be 8 seen en along tho those 1 twentynine miles ot of reef reet some om ut of the finest engineering In Inthe the world and some ot of It ablest man management that tha t ever controlled a gigantic I IL II Is al nil at high pressure and no arc spared to err carry out all the Intricate operations ot of miling mining crushing and ore are reduction wih wIth the ut Utmost most efficiency mOt Urto tIme the time of oC the war wal the value lut of the gout which had bail ben been wal wac not much more thAn U 00 0 cm 1 thee there remain to tl I he extracted from this wi In al all 1011 gold which wi will amount to upward ot of In value nut tIde grand total ot of gold rold lion 11 will l be wrought by tar far fewer workers than thOe those hore hordes of 01 gold ld dig gets torn whom Uret Urel an have drawn their gal 1 Ie of oC characters Such A thin thing a as a apr pr poor diggings I Is lul quit unknown In the country countr around Johannesburg The he deposIts ot of CalifornIa and AustralIa elly easIly In their earler earlier uy by unskilled labor Dy By primitive methods method ot of Iule log Ing At rl ng cot coat gold was waa directly obtainable from gravels rael rend nd nih gets letl too were plentiful Thu there wert were Colun fortunes awaiting the more luck luckIn lucky lit In ot of instances That never can l be done don In the Tani Trans veal 81 mines mine The capitalist h has to b be beI i at hind hand or time I wi will b be In vain 1 Tim 1 engineer hA has to the layIng out ot of ne need 1 a heavy heay expenditure ot of money oney Th The mine has han to IC bt made b by the pinkIng linking or of the erection ot of hauling gear ear earth th the driving ot of tunnels awl the out ot of the ore orl The haulIng Rear gear tur to dell deep mining I in n necessarily I 01 on a lat i II scale and h hiss to be worked b by I pr prIn power In the underground excavation rk roch drills UP are uM used by alt Ir for tor this all also Item steam power hu hiss I Ito pr to 10 bf be Are I II al all through the mine anti and the ore lieu I crushed to he brought to tJ the battery to b be I In each ah ot of the larger batteries of oC the i no 11 thal than 1 tons ot 01 rk rock are r und up dal daily NIght and day incessantly there Ie are 2 I poundIng away In this one battery tm I e each h stamp weighs hal half a tort ton the I ot of the 2 uto I is exactly 1 tans ad and a as Ih they y are all thundering awa aw awat at the Ime same time the noil noise they make makeI I is deafening and Ih the ld solid earth lem I Ito to sake Ake under uDder your our fet feet stamp 11 crust four and A Ahal I hal half tor tons In th the I hou hour hours There e I a carefully regulated now r low oC 01 I water carl away w nl the I hIde sand ad to ti which the rk rock h has be been reduced situ d i it over wl wide lurl surface ot ol amalgam to tn which moat of ol the gold Adheres adre At the end eed ot of ney tour four weeks tit nI r Work ork th the tamp stamps are topped td The Tb amalgam I Is then i off if the plates and Ind limit Iut In reeds for tor the of tb the quicksilver from the amid 1011 The nd which ha been hien I Ier pr er Ih the plat plate I Is made mad to yield a fur tur supply of gold 1014 by cyanide treat lint end by processes ot of Ild I II I St reel him Am It II l It at t the end or of e di h that the gold I Is 1 an I I the IU custom om la is lit ol r th the output of lOll gold h y month and this system I Ii made om corn by government line M I 4 Norris In Rhod Ill sic |
