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Identifier: quicksilverresou00forsrich (find matches)
Title: The quicksilver resources of California
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Forstner, William California State Mining Bureau
Subjects: Mercury mines and mining Mines and mineral resources Mercury ores
Publisher: Sacramento, Calif. : W.W. Shannon, supt. of State printing
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 75. Tiling of Furnace Xo 3. New Alniaden. also medium-sized ore, up to 32 inches. It is extensivelydescribed and discussed by Egleston (above cited, page 864)and Christy (above cited, vol. XIII, pages 553 and 566). Thetiles form a zig-zag plane, alongwhich the orefed from the topslides downthrough the fur-nace until finallydischarged at itsbottom throughthe drawing pit,being graduallyheated on its de-scending course.The size of theore lumps whichcan be treated inthis furnace is governed by the distance between the edge ofone shelf to the face of the next below it, called the shelf-slit.This distance was 3 inches in the first furnaces. Since thenit has been increased; the general dimensions now used is5 or 6 inches, allowing medium-sized ore to be charged. Infurnace No. i, New Almaden, built in 1880, the shelf-slit is 8 inches, the largest^ used in any furnace^ of this type.^ Generall)- the tilesZ are flat; their largest^ commercial dimen-^ sions are 3 inchesby 15 inches by 36^ in

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  • booksubject:Mercury_mines_and_mining
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