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Gold: its occurrence and extraction. Embracing the geographical and geological distribution ... of gold-bearing rocks; ... a bibliography of the subject; and a glossary of English and foreign technical terms ... With ... maps, etc

LOCK, Alfred George. · 1882 · E. & F. N. Spon · 142 pictures

Alfred George Lock's 1882 technical treatise on gold, published in London by E. & F. N. Spon for mining engineers, assayers and prospectors, covering the distribution of auriferous rocks and the machinery used to work them. The plates are numbered line engravings of ore-dressing equipment — sectional elevations, plans and end views of stamps, sluices, concentrators and percussion tables, with lettered parts, hatched cutaways and fine ruled shading usable as ready-made machine diagrams.

British Library · HMNTS 7109.d.19. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain) · More from this library