. Mining and Scientific Press . re, a live stamp mill washired, and vats were built to treat the ore in two-tonlots, exactly as it would be treated in the mill. Resultsshowed good extraction from sand and slime, so the biumill was with confidence, I., our surprise, although the slime gave a good ex-traction. We tailed to get the silver out of the sand. Of course we invented all sorts of explanations, and it wassome time before we found that we had overlooked thetime factor, and that the on- required about four times BS long to treat as we had allowed for. Our experimentalwork was righ
. Mining and Scientific Press . re, a live stamp mill washired, and vats were built to treat the ore in two-tonlots, exactly as it would be treated in the mill. Resultsshowed good extraction from sand and slime, so the biumill was with confidence, I., our surprise, although the slime gave a good ex-traction. We tailed to get the silver out of the sand. Of course we invented all sorts of explanations, and it wassome time before we found that we had overlooked thetime factor, and that the on- required about four times BS long to treat as we had allowed for. Our experimentalwork was right, but we forgol that, in the small mill, wediil not work continuously, but only on the day-shift,and we left off from noon on Saturdays to .Monday morn iiiLs. During the time we were resting the ore was soak-ing, ami altogether it had tin- longtime necessary to give a complete extraction; so we had to enlarge the vats. Ian; w; 11 ML. silver Spin Queensland, September 20. Novi tnber 12. 1921 MINING AND S< [I N 1 II [( PR 667. *a — THE CAIJFORNIA RAND SILVER M1M. LOOKING TOWARD RANDSB1 RG The California Rand Silver Mine—I The Story of the Enterprise By Arthur B. Parsons The story of the California Rand mine invites, andindeed di aaic treatment than it neces- sarily must receive in this article. An interesting chap-ter ii the subject might be entitled Prom grubstaketo affluence in 90 days; another mighl be Miss EdithI : a prospector at heart; a philosopher would be tempted to discuss tin- Psychology of Prosperity if hewere to visit Randsburg today: and an excellent sermon for i!i present-day pros] tor might have as its text Thi California Eland mine; a bonanza that lay au-di vi lop d for 25 years, within a hundred feet of a goodroad in the heart of a well-known mining , I shall endeavor to relate the story briefly,Dg with the first discovery in the Randslmrg dis-trict in I - Tie- accompanying map of California shows that theRandsburg district is situated al
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