Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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>A—STRAKES. B—TANK. C—LAUNDER. D—PLUG. E—WOODEN SHOVEL.
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F—WOODEN MALLET. G—WOODEN SHOVEL WITH SHORT HANDLE. H—THE PLUG
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IN THE STRAKE. I—TANK PLACED UNDER THE PLUG.
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of the loaded strake with a wooden mallet, in order that the tin-stone clinging
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to the sides may fall off; all that has settled in it, he throws out with a
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wooden shovel which has a short handle. </
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>Silver slags which have been
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crushed under the stamps, also fragments of silver-lead alloy and of cakes
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melted from pyrites, are washed in a strake of this kind.</
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>Material of this kind is also washed while wet, in a sieve whose bottom
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is made of woven iron wire, and this is the fourth method of washing. </
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>The
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sieve is immersed in the water which is contained in a tub, and is violently
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shaken. </
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>The bottom of this tub has an opening of such size that as much
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water, together with tailings from the sieve, can flow continuously out of it as
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water flows into it. </
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>The material which settles in the strake, a boy either
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digs over with a three-toothed iron rake or sweeps with a wooden scrubber;
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in this way the water carries off a great part of both sand and mud. </
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>The
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tin-stone or metalliferous concentrates settle in the strake and are afterward
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washed in another strake.</
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>These are ancient methods of washing material which contains tin
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stone; there follow two modern methods. </
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