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E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . METHODS OF MINING BARYTES NEAR CAR1 sumption in this tn ha ? forn xl; bi en o il almosl exclusively frnm Europe. The reason thai American supply probabh in pie for many yeai come—has not been utilised to a d is because in normal timesa I rade of the materia be imported at a slightly lower cost than thai of mining and manufaeturin Tms partly because i labor in Europe, larly because o ports, the principal market points for the material. Extensive o barytes have long been .exfet in the vicini Cartersville, Bartow C but no attempt « ntil m ,00s Wal
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . METHODS OF MINING BARYTES NEAR CAR1 sumption in this tn ha ? forn xl; bi en o il almosl exclusively frnm Europe. The reason thai American supply probabh in pie for many yeai come—has not been utilised to a d is because in normal timesa I rade of the materia be imported at a slightly lower cost than thai of mining and manufaeturin Tms partly because i labor in Europe, larly because o ports, the principal market points for the material. Extensive o barytes have long been .exfet in the vicini Cartersville, Bartow C but no attempt « ntil m ,00s Waltn Satt i supply the i forms tl • 1i 10S4 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL Vol. LOS, No. 2fi. ?? within the mass ami what might lie termed potholes mi its The mi g i- done in surface cuts either by hand- surface, the material is pure and assays of the cleaned work with pick ami shovel or by a small steam shovel,product are said to show 98 to !>•», of BaS04. The It is usual to begin operations by hand and to install themode of occurrence in nodules suggests precipitation from steam shovel later. The most-used type of shovel is thesolution as the origin of these ores, although they have one in which the whole body rotates upon a center, asbeen called residual bj some geologists. this is more convenient in the small pits than other types; The method of prospecting for barytes and similar de- but its weakness appears in the extraordinary strains onposits in clay in this district is simple, cheap and reliable, some of its parts as a consequence of its weight being pivoted at one point. The material handled is solt ami does not require muchblasting, bul the ground is loosene
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