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Identifier: quicksilverresou00forsrich (find matches)
Title: The quicksilver resources of California
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Forstner, William California State Mining Bureau
Subjects: Mercury mines and mining Mines and mineral resources Mercury ores
Publisher: Sacramento, Calif. : W.W. Shannon, supt. of State printing
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As will be seen from the sketch, the fire is applied on bothsides of the charge, which is only 4 feet through, and 6 feetlong in each compartment at the level of the top of the firechambers, and is heated at three sides, while besides, as it 214 QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA.
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comes .nto the firechambers, the chargespreads, thus causingits speedy heating tothe highest tempera-ture in the furnace.The depth of the dis-charge doors belowthe level of the firechamber gives the orea chance to cool off,and to give off themercury vapors notvolatilized during itspassage in front of thefire chamber. Thisfurnace is 17 feetwide, 24 feet throughat the level of the firechamber, and has atotal height of 42^^feet from drawingfloor to chargingtrack. It handles from90 to 100 tons pertwenty-four hours; itscubic capacity is 2400feet, hence the oreremains a little abovetwenty-four hours inthe furnace. It isrun by two shifts offive men each—onefurnace man, twochargers, and twodrawers—and requiresnot quite 2 - cords ofwood per day. Theexcessively low fuelconsumption is parthdue to the high per-centage of iron sul-phide in the ore. METAIJ.rRGV. 215 The fine-ore furnaces belong nearly all to the tile furnacetype, with the exception of: Livermore Furnace.— (See Fig. 72.) Only

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  • bookauthor:California_State_Mining_Bureau
  • booksubject:Mercury_mines_and_mining
  • booksubject:Mines_and_mineral_resources
  • booksubject:Mercury_ores
  • bookpublisher:Sacramento__Calif____W_W__Shannon__supt__of_State_printing
  • bookcontributor:University_of_California_Libraries
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