Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for pulverizing quartz, differing in character from the ordinary mill in which the ore is pulverized by stamping, but intended to serve the same purpose. See
stamp-mill . - noun An establishment where auriferous quartz is stamped or in some other way reduced to a powder, and the gold separated from it by amalgamation; a stamp-mill.
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Examples
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In ‘Roughing It’ the author tells us that, when flour had reached one dollar a pound and he could no longer get the dollar, he abandoned mining and went to milling “as a common laborer in a quartz-mill at ten dollars a week.”
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Curry mines, and the new hundred-stamp quartz-mill.
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It is like him to wish us to believe that he was obliged to give up being a mining magnate to become a laborer in a quartz-mill, for there is a grim humor in the confession.
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Yes, and I have shoveled silver tailings in a quartz-mill a couple of weeks, and acquired the last possibilities of culture in that direction.
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Do you know that he stole all the stamps out of an 8-stamp quartz-mill one night, and brought them home under his overcoat and hid them in the back room?
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"The boardin'-house is over to the mill -- the quartz-mill, ten miles down the canon."
Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels
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Just at present the tunnel was empty, the glory-hole was deserted, and the quartz-mill was silent.
The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels
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She made no move towards the quartz-mill, which Gettysburg had indicated, over on the slope.
The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels
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Works of exploration and of "construction", such as will hereafter be pointed out, must, it is true, always precede those of extraction; but a very moderate quartz-mill will easily "dress" ten tons of quartz daily, or three thousand tons per annum, requiring the constant labor of thirty men, as shown by the large experience already gained throughout the
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The extra horses were all in requisition to haul the ore to the quartz-mill through a stretch of ten long miles of drifted snow.
Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels
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