This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...is the same everywhere, each digger having his washing-pan, a wooden dish thirty inches wide and five inches deep at the centre, afloat in the river, anchored to a stone. A basket of gravel is shaken over it, only the smaller stuff finding its way through, and the larger stones being thrown aside. A ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...is the same everywhere, each digger having his washing-pan, a wooden dish thirty inches wide and five inches deep at the centre, afloat in the river, anchored to a stone. A basket of gravel is shaken over it, only the smaller stuff finding its way through, and the larger stones being thrown aside. A rotary motion is given to the pan by the continual shifting of the hands from left to right, at the same time a depression of the rim is sent round 'against the sun' which alternately expels and dips up the water. The lighter material, such as quartz and mica, being thus got rid of, the minerals of greater specific gravity, including magnetite, which remain, are carefully washed out into a small wooden box, which is eventually carried home and handed over to the woman, who, I was told (for I never saw it done), use mercury for freeing such gold as is possible. While the 'vanning' is going on, any visible gold is taken out and put away in a quill, and in this way each man makes from one to two hun a day of eight hours' work. It is generally very fine float gold and very highly water-worn. At two hun a day, which is a very high average, a party of eight men will.wash a fifth of an ounce per day. They seldom work for more than a few weeks at a time, just to get enough to get a little bangle or two for the chief, and instead of cutting systematic trenches the work is carried on in the usual Indo-Chinese happy-go-lucky manner. A fee of from three to four rupees per man is demanded by the authorities. Another form of alluvial gravel is worked up the valleys of some of the tributaries of the Me Kawng, notably the Nam Beng, Nam U, and their streams on the left, and Nam Ngau and others on the right bank. These gravels are generally coarser and less...
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