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Kentucky Mine Stamp Mill and museum, near Sierra City, California; 30 stamp mill near Cordova, Ontario; Mining History Illustrations 5 cutaway drawings of mills produced by the Joshua Hendy Iron Works Company during the early 1900s. Western Museum of Mining and Industry The historic "yellow jacket" stamp mill is located here. It is open year ...
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The Wall Street Mill in Joshua Tree National Park was a complete and operable gold ore crushing mill featuring late-19th century two-stamp mill machinery. Consequently, the significance encompasses the mill machinery, the building which houses it, the well which supplied water for the mill's operation, and the well pump.
Later with the establishment of reef mining, it was necessary to set up milling facilities to extract the gold. The Mabel Mill, located on the northern side of Elphinstone Creek, is known to have been established by 1871, by which time there were five mills on the Ravenswood Gold Field with a total of 52 stamps for crushing.
Crystal Mine was discovered in 1895 and the ten-stamp mill was installed in 1901. [2] Operations were first undertaken in 1901–2, aided by a 20-stamp mill close to the shore at Snettisham, said to have produced approximately $25,000 work of gold.
The rock was crushed in a four-stamp mill with 600-pound stamps, and a 5-foot (1.5 m) Huntington mill. Two of the above-mentioned mines were free milling and two produced sulfide ore. Five men were engaged on the property at the time, mainly on development work. The owner in 1895 was R.E. Hudson.
Pre-1923 postcard of the 100 Stamp Mill at Blair, Nevada scanned by Christopher Brooks. The mill closed in 1915, was dismantled by 1918, when the railroad was abandoned. Author: Original author unknown, possibly Clarence Leach, who took many postcard photos of Blair.
An arrastra (or arastra) is a primitive mill for grinding and pulverizing (typically) gold or silver ore. Its simplest form is two or more flat-bottomed drag stones placed in a circular pit paved with flat stones, and connected to a center post by a long arm.