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In situ gold-bearing vein (in brown) at the Toi gold mine, Japan. In many gold mines exploited during the gold rushes of the 19th century, vein material alone was typically sought as ore material. [8] In most of today's mines, ore material is primarily composed of the veins and some component of the wall rocks which surrounds the veins. [9]
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"Mining on the Comstock", depicts the headframes and mills of the various mines, and the mining technology used at Comstock, most prominently the method of square-set timbering developed there to work the veins. Comstock Lode geologic map, north. Ophir is in the top center; "qz" is quartz and signifies the Comstock Lode. [1]:
The Guanajuato Mining District, Mexico: This district has been mined for centuries and is known for its high-grade epithermal veins containing gold and silver. [11] The Baguio Mineral District, Philippines: This district is home to numerous epithermal vein deposits, including the Acupan Mine, one of the largest gold mines in the Philippines. [12]
A stringer lode is one in which the rock is so permeated by small veinlets that rather than mining the veins, the entire mass of ore and the enveined country rock is mined. It is so named because of the irregular branching of the veins into many anastomosis stringers, so that the ore is not separable from the country rock.
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It was used during the Roman period for hydraulic mining of alluvial gold deposits, and in opencast vein mining, for removal of rock debris, created by mechanical attack and fire-setting. He describes how tanks and reservoirs are built near the suspected veins, filled with water from an aqueduct, and the water suddenly released from a sluice ...
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