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Hydraulic mining is a form of
mining that uses high-pressure jets of
water to
dislodge rock
material or move sediment. In the
placer mining of gold or...
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different hydraulic applications were developed,
including public water supplies,
innumerable aqueducts,
power using watermills and
hydraulic mining. They...
- of
large volumes of
water brought to the
minehead by
aqueducts for
hydraulic mining. The
exposed rock was then
attacked by fire-setting,
where fires were...
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separate the
precious material from the deposit, a
method known as
hydraulic mining,
hydraulic sluicing or hydraulicking. The word
placer derives from the Spanish...
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Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of
civil engineering is
concerned with the flow and
conveyance of fluids, prin****lly
water and sewage. One...
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Mining in
ancient Rome
utilized hydraulic mining and
shaft mining techniques in
combination with
equipment such as the
Archimedes ****. The materials...
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especially in
Ireland and Spain.
Romans emplo****
slave labour and used
hydraulic mining methods, such as
hushing and
ground sluicing on a
large scale to extract...
- debris,
called hydraulic mining, as well as
washing comminuted, or crushed, ores and
driving simple machinery. The
Romans used
hydraulic mining methods on...
- mill pond.
Other common uses for
leats include delivery of
water for
hydraulic mining and
mineral concentration, for irrigation, to
serve a dye
works or...
- mountains), a
Roman mining technique described by
Pliny the
Elder in 77 AD. The
technique emplo**** was a type of
hydraulic mining which involved undermining...