stamping-mill

By the time you've sunk a shaft and put up a stamping-mill, you've mortgaged your quartz for more than it is worth, perhaps.

Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California

First, upon the river, at the mouth of the adit, was a stamping-mill, where gangs of stamps were playing in troughs, and reducing the hard ore to a coarse powder.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

At a mine in the vicinity the ancient stone mansion serving as residence of the superintendent was torn down and sent through the stamping-mill, and a new one of less valuable rock erected.

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond

It sounded like a stamping-mill; some were beating their slates upon the tables, and others thumping with their elbows.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01

North Carolina established a mill near Raleigh; and a stamping-mill was put up near New Orleans, and powder made there before the fall of the city.

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government