Papers Read Before the Black Hills Mining Men's Association at Their Regular Monthly Meetings, on the Mining and Metallurgy of Black Hills Ores, ... Hills, and Some Statistics Relating to the O

Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Black Hills Mining Men's Association at Their Regular Monthly Meetings, on the Mining and Metallurgy of Black Hills Ores, Together With a Brief Outline of the Mining Industry of the Black Hills, and Some Statistics Relating to the O The company is now Operating 900 stamps and an additional 100 stamps will be installed during the coming year. The 900 stamps are grouped in six mills, the Homestake and Golden Star with 200 stamps each and the Amicus with 140 stamps are located on Gold Run Gulch, the Pocahontas with 160 stamps and the Monroe with 100 stamps are located on Bobtail Gulch which is a tributary of Deadwood Gulch. The Mineral Point Mill with 100 stamps is located on the south Side Of Deadwood Gulch and near the northerly end of the property. The tailings are treated at two cyanide plants. One with a capacity Of tons per day is located on Gold Run below the Homestake, Golden Star and Amicus Mills and treats the tailings from these mills. The other, with a daily capacity of 800 tons, is located on Deadwood Gulch at the mouth of Bobtail and receives the tailings from the Pocahontas, Monroe and Mineral Point mills. The ore is principally free milling, seventy-two per cent. Being caught on the plates, the total recovery is approximately eighty-eight per cent. Of the assay value. (see paper on Metallurgy of the Homestake Ore by C. W. Merrill, Met. Eng, read before the American Mining Congress at its 1903 meeting in Lead, S. D.) 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.