Mineral Collection (page 2)

Saint-Elie. Inauguration De La Premiere Mine De Quartz, (Saint-Elie. The first Quartz Mine), 1900
Saint-Elie. Inauguration De La Premiere Mine De Quartz, (Saint-Elie. Opening the first Quartz Mine), 1900. Mine located in the central north of the French Guiana

Saint-Elie. Le Schluss (Rigole Pour L Or), (The Sluice, Prospecting for Gold), 1900. French Guiana From " Autour du Monde - Fascicule XLVI". [L. Boulanger, Paris, 1900]

Mining Camp, Nevada, c1897. Creator: Unknown
Mining Camp, Nevada, c1897. From " A Tour Through the New World America", by Prof. Geo. R. Cromwell. [C. N. Greig & Co. London, c1897]

Saint-Elie. Le Grand Batardeau. (Construction), (Building a Cofferdam), 1900. Creator: Unknown
Saint-Elie. Le Grand Batardeau. (Construction), (Building a Cofferdam), 1900. French Guiana From " Autour du Monde - Fascicule XLVI". [L. Boulanger, Paris, 1900]

Saint-Elie. La Battee (Recherche De L Or), (Panning for Gold), 1900. Creator: Unknown
Saint-Elie. La Battee (Recherche De L Or), (Panning for Gold), 1900. French Guiana From " Autour du Monde - Fascicule XLVI". [L. Boulanger, Paris, 1900]

Yenan-Young Oil Wells, 1900. Creator: Unknown
Yenan-Young Oil Wells, 1900. The dominant industry in the area is petroleum. From " Typical Photographs of Burma - Burmese Life and Scenes". [Rowe & Co. Ltd. Rangoon, 1900]

At Work in a Victorian Gold-Mine, 1923. Creator: Unknown
At Work in a Victorian Gold-Mine, 1923. From " Australia, New Zealand and Oceania in Pictures", by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. Blitt. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1923]

Brown Sulphur Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Brown Sulphur Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA, c1900. There are thought to be about 1, 000 geothermal features in Yellowstone, including geyser basins, hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles

The Black Growler, Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, Montana, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
The Black Growler, Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, Montana, USA, c1900. The Black Growler Steam Vent has measured 93 to 138 degrees C

Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone Park, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone Park, USA, c1900. There are thought to be about 1, 000 geothermal features in Yellowstone, including geyser basins, hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles

Central control area of the dolomite plant, Steetley, Nottinghamshire, 1963. Artist
Central control area of the dolomite plant, Steetley, Nottinghamshire, 1963. A plant controller uses eye protection as he checks on the contents of the kiln in the central control area of

Sacking Nitrate, 1911. From Chile, by G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A. F.R.G.S. [T. Fisher Terrace, London, 1911]

Ship Awaiting Cargoes of Nitrate at Iquique, 1911. From Chile, by G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A. F.R.G.S. [T. Fisher Terrace, London, 1911]

Loading Up With Nitrates, 1911. From Chile, by G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A. F.R.G.S. [T. Fisher Terrace, London, 1911]

Prospecting for metals, 1556 (1956). From Georgius Agricolas De re Metallica. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common

Quartz crushing mill, Australia, 1879. Artist: McFarlane and Erskine
Quartz crushing mill, Australia, 1879. A print from The History of Australasia, by David Blair, McGrady, Thomson, and Niven, 1879

Quartz Mining, California, 1859. Artist: Gustave Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques
Quartz Mining, California, 1859. A print from le Tour du Monde, 1859

Hydraulic Mining, California, 1859. Artist: Gustave Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques
Hydraulic Mining, California, 1859. A print from le Tour du Monde, 1859

French miners working a long tom sluice, California, 19th century. Artist: Gustave Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques
French miners working a long tom sluice, California, 19th century. A print from le Tour du Monde

Excavating and washing of sands at the bottom of a river, California, 19th century. A print from le Tour du Monde

Chinese miners, California, 19th century. Artist: Gustave Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques
Chinese miners, California, 19th century. A print from le Tour du Monde

Swedish peasants prospecting for lake ore, c1880. Artist: Mairray
Swedish peasants prospecting for lake ore, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

Women washing the precious metal platinum from alluvial gravels, Urals, Russia, 1916

Washing ore to extract gold, 1683. Water is fed into a sieve containing crushed ore. The solution containing ore in suspension is fed along collecting pans, often lined with dark woollen cloth

View of Sunderland and the Iron Bridge looking eastwards, 1833. This single span cast iron bridge over the Wear at Wearmouth, Sunderland, was opened in 1796

Georgius Agricola, 16th century German physician, mineralogist and metallurgist. Agricola (christened Georg Bauer) (1494-1555) was the author of De re metallica

Blast furnace for smelting iron ore, 1556. From De re Metallica by Georgius Agricola. Basel, 1556)

Stamp for breaking copper cupellation cakes for further refining, 1556. Powered by a water wheel through a drive shaft. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola. (Basel, 1556)

Stamping and roasting ore to extract metal, 1556. This technique was used to extract lead, copper, silver and gold. The mill is powered by a water wheel

Aztec Nefrite Head of a Jaguar, 1300-1521. The jaguar is America?s largest and most powerful cat, and for more than three thousand years it has been Mexico?s most enduring symbolic animal

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The Latrobe Gold Nugget. A mass of cube-shaped crystals, from Melvor, Victoria

China-clay workings in Cornwall, northwest of St Austell

Aztec Turquoise and Lignite mosaic mask of Tezcatlipoca, 15th - 16th century
Aztec mask believed to represent Tezcatlipoca, modelled on a skull with the back cut away and lined with leather, 15th to 16th century. The jaw is hinged. From the British Museum

Cerusite Crystals, PbCO3 - lead carbonate

Iron Pyrites

Mineral Court of New South Wales, Centennial International Exhibition, Australia, 1888. Artist: O Shamessy
Mineral Court of New South Wales, Centennial International Exhibition, Australia, 1888. In 1888 the city of Melbourne hosted an exposition in commemoration of the centenary of the arrival of

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