Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-06
From the San Francisco Scientific PreS-l
NimnIa hut Effective.

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At the present time, when the whole
mining lnteres, of the State Is suffering
from the effects of a well founded COM
plant that the cost Of extracting the met
ais from their ORES leaves but a small mar
gin for profits, in consequence Of the in
suticiency OF the processes employed for
their extraction, the discovery OF any
method or any machine that will remove
the cause of this complaint. becomes a
matter of great importance, not only to
those directly concerned in mining opera
tons, but to the people of the Pacific
coast generally.
Baux's first premium Separator and
Amalgamator is, by many. regarded a.
the neares, approach to perfection in this
requirement yet introduced. Simple in
its operation. constructed on principles
the soundness of which are apparent to
every one competent to compare the cause
Of an action with its effect. its results are
demon-tra,ive of its efficiency. Though
but little more than a year since first in.
troduced, it has been thoroughly tested in
various parts Of this State and Nevada.
and with every description of ore-from
adamantine quartz, containing coarse
gold, to the difficulty managed tight sui
phurets and chlorides, and other complex
ores of silver; and in every place where
it ha> been used. we are told, it has given
the fullest sati>faction-to the validity Of
this claim the increasing orders for these
pans testify. We think nothing more
c~onclusively demonstrates the correctness
of the principle on which Baux's Sepa-
rator and Amalgamator is constructed.
than the fact. which il so very apparent
at the present exhibition, that while all
the best of the pans-those made by the
most famous inventors, have been changed
more or less TO conform to the principles
forming the chief characteristic of this in
v~ention, namely, to prevent the mercury
being ground with the ores. Baux's Sep
arator and Amalgamator remains I'M
changed in every essential particular.
II is claimed for Mr.. Baux, who is a
learned French mathematician and ma.
chinist, who first demonstrated the ad-
vantage Of retaining the mercurAon the
outer edge Of the pan-and by the centri-
Iugal motion of the mullers to inject the
particles of metal into it for ~amalgama.
ton, a principle so correct and effective
tina, the wonder is that it had never been
discovered before.
We have made many inquiries in rela-
ton to these pans. from millmen and
miners in various parts of the State. in
which they are in operation. and the gen.
eral reply has been that they are what
their inventor claims for them-one of the
most simple and effective amalgamators
ever introduced. In that section Of Ne
vada county in which are located those
rich deposits of hard cement containing |
gold. known as the blue gravel lead, many
claims thai could derive no profit by work.
ing this cement with ordinary mills and
pans, are extracting large quantities of
gold with Baux's A~malgamator.
At Maliman's celebrated chemical
works, near Grass ValIey-where hun
dreds of tons Of sulphurets are annually
operated upon to obtain their gold by the
Celebration process-this pan has made the
product Of the operation considerably
larger. AT Gold Hill, Nevada, where a
number of these pans have been used for
months-on trial in every case the mill
owners have ordered sets Of them-till at
present the orders from Nevada alone
reach nearly seventy. At a meeting Of a
number of mill-owners, assembled for the
purpose of testing the efficiency of the
various pans at present in use. Baux's
Amalgamator and Separator obtained two
and one-half ounces OF amalgam from 400
pounds of pulp that had passed through
famous pan-which ,grinds the mercury
with the ore. Comment on such a fact
which may at any time be ,ested-is quite
unnecessary. We are not writing this
article to extol Baux's Amalgamator and
Separator beyond its merits, or to dis
parage any other pan, but to convey in
formation to our readers on an important
subject, and as AN act Of justice to the in
ventor Of a really valuable machine.