Gold Production Incentives: Hearing, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session. May 4, 1966 |
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$35 an ounce $35 per ounce Alaska American amount approximately areas balance of payments Black Hills capital Carlin Chairman clay committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY continue costs of production D.C. DEAR SENATOR DEAR SENATOR GRUENING dollar domestic gold mining domestic gold production dredges economic efforts enactment equipment ERNEST GRUENING exploration Federal financial assistance payments foreign gold and silver gold industry Gold Mines Assistance gold mining industry gold operations gold reserves Government Homestake Homestake's incentive increase investment labor legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS lode ment metal million ounces mining and milling MOORE Nevada North Carolina ounces of gold outflow percent period placer potential present President price of gold problems production of gold profit reopen Saprolite Secretary Senator ERNEST GRUENING Senator JORDAN Sierra County South Dakota statement supplies taxes Terry Peak tion Treasury Department Treasury stocks U.S. Senate United Washington World World War II
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Page 6 - The joint committee shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members. (d) The joint committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such places and times, to require, by subpena or otherwise, the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, to procure such printing and binding, and to make such expenditures as it deems advisable....
Page 91 - Lewis Process.' The soft decomposed rock or Saprolite was dug by a steam shovel and delivered to the plant by dump trucks. The ore was dumped on a grizzly, the large fragments of quartz and hard rocks were thrown aside, and the fines dropped on bucket elevators.
Page 91 - Some large quartz pebbles were also placed in the disintegrator to help break up the plastic clay. The sludge from the disintegrator emptied on a screen which took out bits of wood, leaves and other foreign materials. The clay sludge emptied into sluice boxes with riffles for collecting the coarse gold. The fine gold was to be recovered by the electric amalgamator. "The electrical amalgamator consisted of two copper plates, one above the other, about one inch apart.
Page 115 - The inside of the bowl was lined with horizontal grooves about one-quarter inch in depth. The sludge or disintegrated material was fed by 4-inch pipe down the center, and the material was discharged at the bottom of the bowl. The bowl was revolved at varying speeds, depending on the consistency of the sludge entering it. The material was discharged by the centrifugal motion over the sides of the bowl, while the mercury, and any gold it might have picked up, was caught in the grooves. Since the ore...
Page 6 - ... as may at that time be found desirable. SEC. 5. In the conduct of this study full use shall be made of the experience, knowledge, and advice of private organizations, schools, institutions, and individuals. The...
Page 6 - A vacancy in the membership of the committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original selection.