The California Stamp Mill - California Digital Library
The interior of a quartz mill at Grass Valley, Nevada County, the leading center of hard-rock mining, as illustrated in the October 1857 issue Hutchings' California Magazine.. To the rear stand two four-stamp batteries, or mills. The cast-iron "stampers," or pestles, weighing from six hundred to a thousand pounds, were raised by the revolving horizontal driveshaft and then fell with tremendous ...
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