quartz-mining

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• Quartz

  ·noun A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are common...

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• quartz

  n. a mineral; the common form of nativesilica. It is abundantly diffused throughout the world, andf...

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• gold-mining

  verbal n. 1852. J. A.Phillips [Title]: «Gold-mining; a Scientific Guide for Australian Emigrants.»...

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• Vein quartz

  ·add. ·- Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein. ...

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• hungry quartz

  n. a miner's term forunpromising Quartz (q.v.) ...

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• quartz-battery

  n. a machine for crushingquartz, and so extracting gold. 1890. `The Argus,' July 26, p. 4, col. 4:...

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• quartz-blade

  n. blade of a miner'sknife used for picking lumps of gold out of the stone. 1891. `The Argus,' Dec...

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• quartz-crushing

  adj. See quartz. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xxxix. p. 341: «The dull reverberatin...

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• quartz-field

  n. a non-alluvial goldfield. 1890. `The Argus,' June 16, p. 6, col. 1: «Our principal quartz-fiel...

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• quartz-lodes

  and Quartz-mining See quartz. 1880. G. Sutherland, `Tales of Goldfields,' p. 32: «He chose the pi...

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• quartz-reefer

  n. a miner engaged in Quartz-reefing, as distinguished from one diggingin alluvial. See above. ...

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• quartz-reefing

  n. 1) The operation ofmining. See reef, verb. 2) A place where thereis gold mixed with quartz. 18...

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