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Thursday, July 17, 2014
Gold Recovery Plant - 2nd attempt
Aug
26, 1938 – A gold recovery plant has been established east of Minot near the
Mouse River by the Herman Hanson Syndicate. Soil travels up a conveyor belt to
a circular drum. There it is washed and whirled. The coarse gravel is discarded
and the finer material, carrying the gold content passes across a vibrating
screen, which sifts the material even finer. Water pumped from the river,
washes the screened material down into sluices where a series of riffles and
special cloths trap the gold. The concentrate is then pit through a special
electro-amalgamated process, which extracts the gold dust. Between 2,000 and
3,000 cubic yards of material will run through the plant daily.
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