Hydraulic mining is a form of mining that uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment. In the placer mining of gold or...
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separate the precious material from the deposit, a method known as hydraulic mining, hydraulic sluicing or hydraulicking. The word placer derives from the Spanish...
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Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage. One...
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Hydraulics (redirect from Hydraulic)
different hydraulic applications were developed, including public water supplies, innumerable aqueducts, power using watermills and hydraulic mining. They...
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of large volumes of water brought to the minehead by aqueducts for hydraulic mining. The exposed rock was then attacked by fire-setting, where fires were...
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Mining in ancient Rome utilized hydraulic mining and shaft mining techniques in combination with equipment such as the Archimedes screw. The materials...
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Fracking (redirect from Hydraulic fracture)
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of...
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Las Médulas (section Mining technique)
mountains), a Roman mining technique described by Pliny the Elder in 77 AD. The technique employed was a type of hydraulic mining which involved undermining...
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especially in Ireland and Spain. Romans employed slave labour and used hydraulic mining methods, such as hushing and ground sluicing on a large scale to extract...
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Dolaucothi Gold Mines (category History of gold mining)
alluvial tin deposits, and is known as hydraulic mining. A smaller scale version of the same method is placer mining, and both may have been used to work...
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debris, called hydraulic mining, as well as washing comminuted, or crushed, ores and driving simple machinery. The Romans used hydraulic mining methods on...
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Valley. The farmers who brought the suit claimed that the company's hydraulic mining operations (which were used to mine gold in the years following the...
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16, 2023. Manson Creek historic society, hydraulic mining Quest Connect, dredges National Park Service, Mining History and Technique ExploreNorth The Pedro...
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industry, known as a log flume. They were also extensively used in hydraulic mining and working placer deposits for gold, tin and other heavy minerals...
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Leat (category Hydraulic engineering)
mill pond. Other common uses for leats include delivery of water for hydraulic mining and mineral concentration, for irrigation, to serve a dye works or...
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locations. Hydraulic mining was used on ancient gold-bearing gravel beds on hillsides and bluffs in the gold fields.: 89 In hydraulic mining, a high-pressure...
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Gold in California (redirect from Gold mining in California)
1853, hydraulic mining was used on ancient gold-bearing gravel beds on hillsides and bluffs in the goldfields. In a modern style of hydraulic mining first...
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Ancient Roman engineering (section Mining)
were also skilled in mining, building aqueducts needed to supply equipment used in extracting metal ores, e.g. hydraulic mining, and the building of reservoirs...
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of hydraulic mining debris into the Sacramento River, effectively eliminating large-scale hydraulic operations. For the next 14 years, drift mining placer...
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Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park (category Mining museums in California)
Malakoff Diggins, the largest hydraulic mining site in California, United States. The mine was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of the...
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Cassiterite (category Tin mining)
on Bodmin Moor, for example, where there are extensive traces of a hydraulic mining method known as streaming. The current major tin production comes from...
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Hardrock mining (in California called quartz mining) began in 1849, and placer mining by hydraulic mining began in 1852. Despite the new mining methods...
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liquid surface Hydraulic mining, a form of mining that uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment Hydraulic power, disambiguation...
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Gold Country (category Gold mining in the United States)
but died out by 1853. Malakoff Diggings was known for its booming hydraulic mining. Placer County – Colfax was known for a main station for supplies from...
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the fact that they are always under the hydraulic roof supports when they are extracting coal. Longwall mining has traditionally been a manual process...
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large-scale industrial hydraulic mining left a much greater impact. About 25 million cubic yards (19,400,000 m3) of hydraulic mining debris was carried down...
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one billion cubic yards (760×10^6 m3) of river sediment and lesser hydraulic mining debris was dredged to produce an estimated 5.14 million ounces (146×10^6 g)...
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Spoil tip (redirect from Bing (mining))
materials ("tailings") are deposited behind the dredge in spoil banks. In hydraulic mining, high-pressure jets of water dislodge earth materials, which are put...
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Confederate Gulch and Diamond City (category Mining in Montana)
employed high pressure hydraulic mining methods which washed down whole hillsides and ate up the gulch floor. The hydraulic mining process left huge spoil...
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Excavator (redirect from Hydraulic excavator)
and functions of a hydraulic excavator are accomplished through the use of hydraulic fluid, with hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic motors, which replaced...
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