Historical information

500 of these books were printed, and many were used in the field, making good copies very rare.

Significance

A simple but detailed account of the process written especially for the working miner and the small syndicate, the Quintessential Australian gold Mining book.

Physical description

Orange, hard, cloth covered b270 page book with brown dust jacket. Chapters include sampling sand and slime dumps; treating sand; aeration; treatment of slime; smelting; solution testing; cyanide solution; air- slaked lime; cyanding in Queensland; copper troubles; treatment of concentrates; amalgamations; assaying; floatation; chemistry; testing for minerals.

Includes photographic reproductions of a cyanide plant for sand; aeration tower; mixer tank; Eleanora cyaniding plant;