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The facility processes nearly two million tons of tailings each month at a processing cost of below US$ 3.00/t (2013). Gold is recovered at a rate of only 0.20 g/t, but the low yield is compensated for by the extremely low cost of processing, with no risky or expensive mining or milling required
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Vast areas of farmland in the Sacramento Valley were deeply buried by the mining sediment. Frequently devastated by flood waters, farmers demanded an end to hydraulic mining. In the most renowned legal fight of farmers against miners, the farmers sued the hydraulic mining operations and the landmark
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was expanding rapidly in Europe. Using a process later known as hushing, the Romans stored a large volume of water in a reservoir immediately above the area to be mined; the water was then quickly released. The resulting wave of water removed overburden and exposed bedrock. Gold veins in the bedrock
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system to protect the city from floods and sediment. Hydraulic mining greatly exacerbated the problem of flooding in Marysville and shoaled the waters of the Feather River so severely that few steamboats could navigate from Sacramento to the Marysville docks. The sediment left by such efforts were
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Nearby farmland became contaminated, which led to political pushback against the use of hydraulic mining. The slickens flowed through the Sacramento River before depositing itself into the San Francisco Bay. Currently, the San Francisco Bay remains dangerously contaminated with mercury. Estimates
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Early placer miners in California discovered that the more gravel they could process, the more gold they were likely to find. Instead of working with pans, sluice boxes, long toms, and rockers, miners collaborated to find ways to process larger quantities of gravel more rapidly. Hydraulic mining
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The resulting slimes are pumped further away from the built-up areas permitting the economic development of land close to commercially valuable areas and previously covered by the tailings. The historic yellow-coloured mine dumps around Johannesburg are now almost a rarity, seen only in older
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mining in California) or hydraulic mining, which required larger organizations and much more capital. By the mid-1880s, it is estimated that 11 million ounces of gold (worth approximately US$ 7.5 billion at mid-2006 prices) had been recovered by hydraulic mining .
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hose by the 1860s. In California, hydraulic mining often brought water from higher locations for long distances to holding ponds several hundred feet above the area to be mined. California hydraulic mining exploited gravel deposits, making it a form of
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decided in favor of the farmers and limited hydraulic mining on January 7, 1884, declaring that hydraulic mining was "a public and private nuisance" and enjoining its operation in areas tributary to navigable streams and rivers.
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and Uranium Company (ERGO) has been in operation since 1977. The facility uses hydraulic monitors to create slurry from older (and consequently richer) tailings sites and pumps it long distances to a concentration plant.
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The modern form of hydraulic mining, using jets of water directed under very high pressure through hoses and nozzles at gold-bearing upland paleogravels, was first used by Edward Matteson near
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By the early 1860s, while hydraulic mining was at its height, small-scale placer mining had largely exhausted the rich surface placers, and the mining industry turned to hard rock (called
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became the largest-scale, and most devastating, form of placer mining. Water was redirected into an ever-narrowing channel, through a large canvas hose, and out through a giant iron
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While generating millions of dollars in tax revenues for the state and supporting a large population of miners in the mountains, hydraulic mining had a devastating effect on
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blocking waterways and covering farm fields. These problems led to its legal regulation. Hydraulic mining has been used in various forms around the world.
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and continues to be used in developing nations, often with devastating environmental consequences. The devastation caused by this method of mining caused
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were then worked using a number of techniques, and water power was used again to remove debris. The remains at Las MĂ©dulas and in surrounding areas show
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Hydraulic mining developed from ancient Roman techniques that used water to excavate soft underground deposits. Its modern form, using pressurized water
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in the United States. Though successful in extracting gold-rich minerals, the widespread use of the process resulted in extensive
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Although often associated with California due to its adoption and widespread use there, the technology was exported widely, to
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systems in California. Millions of tons of earth and water were delivered to mountain streams that fed rivers flowing into the
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rivers, Marysville was the final "jumping off" point for miners heading to the northern foothills to seek their fortune.
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production) are also available for recovery from the process stream as co-products under suitable economic conditions.
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became an outlet for polluting byproducts during the Gold Rush. Hydraulic mining left a trail of toxic waste, called "
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where it was used between the 1850s and early 1900s, with abundant evidence of the damage still being visible today.
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made navigation on the rivers increasingly difficult. Perhaps no other city experienced the boon and the bane of
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Hydraulic mining had its precursor in the practice of ground sluicing, a development of which is also known as "
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in the 70s AD and witnessed the operations himself. The use of hushing has been confirmed by field survey and
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Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley: 1850-1986.
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suggest that it will be another century before the Bay naturally removes the mercury from its system.
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and river beds causing them to rise, shift to new channels, and overflow their banks, causing major
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were constructed. This led to a number of operations above sediment catching brush dams and log
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Water was used on a large scale by Roman engineers in the first centuries BC and AD when the
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On the South African Rand gold fields, a gold surface tailings re-treatment facility called
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of up to 30 miles (48 km) in length feeding large supplies of water into the site. The
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scenery on a gigantic scale owing to hydraulicking of the rich alluvial gold deposits.
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The spectacular eroded landscape left at the site of hydraulic mining can be viewed at
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Gold vs. Grain: The Hydraulic Mining Controversy in California's Sacramento Valley
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and into the San Francisco Bay. The slickens would contain harmful metals such as
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Hydraulic mining on a much smaller scale was recommenced after 1893 when the
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Gold miners excavate an eroded bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in
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High-pressure water jets have also been used in the underground mining of
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In addition to its use in true mining, hydraulic mining can be used as an
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Starting in the 1870s, hydraulic mining became a mainstay of alluvial
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Mining technique using high-pressure water jets to carve away minerals
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A miner using a hydraulic jet to mine for gold in California, from
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technique, principally to demolish hills. For example, the
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called a "monitor", came about in the 1850s during the
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Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company
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Environment and Development in the Straits of Malacca
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which allowed licensed mining operations if sediment
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where they would unload their passengers and cargo.
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boxes to remove the gold. It is also used in mining
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Hydraulicking

The Century Magazine
mining
water
placer mining
gold
tin
sluice
kaolin
coal
jets
nozzle
California Gold Rush
environmental damage
erosion
sediment
hushing
Roman miners
alluvium
Las MĂ©dulas
Dolaucothi
Great Britain
England
Wales
Scotland
lead
tin
copper
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