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Paymaster Stamp Mill, relocated to Jake Jackson Museum, Weaverville, California; 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 ...
Exhibits include the crystalline gold Fricot Nugget, weighing 201 troy ounces (6.25 kg), the largest found during the California Gold Rush; a working scale model of a stamp mill over 100 years old, demonstrating the process of extracting gold from quartz rock; and a replica hard rock mine tunnel that allows visitors to better understand California's hard rock mines.
The Davis Mill is a historic stamp mill located off of North Bloomfield Road northeast of Nevada City, California. The mill served the Randolph Mine, a small gold mine run by the Davis family, from 1915 to 1940. It included the standard machinery of an early 20th century stamp mill, which consisted of a stamp battery, a rock crusher, an ore bin ...
In 1974 California State Parks purchased the Empire Mine surface property for $1.25 million ($7.72 million today), to create a state historic park. [ 6 ] : 81 The state park now contains 853 acres (345 ha; 3.45 km 2 ; 1.333 sq mi), [ 9 ] including forested backcountry. [ 3 ]
The stamp mill contained 40 1,250 pounds (570 kg) stamps. Ore entering the mill from the tramway went over grizzlies. It then went to stamps which dropped 106 times per minute. Only outside amalgamation was used, and the pulp flowed over 6 feet (1.8 m) amalgamating plates to Frenier sand pumps, which sent it to hydraulic classifiers.
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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.