Gold Mining

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Natural History, Gold rush, Lost Adams Diggings, Bibliotheca historica, Las M dulas, Placer mining, Welsh gold, Recreational gold mining, William F. Holcomb, Witwatersrand Basin, Serra Pelada, 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill, List of countries by gold production, Allchar deposit, Gold panning, Gold prospecting, Lost Blue Bucket Mine, Gold dredge, Gold nugget, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, Bannockburn, New Zealand, Quartz reef mining, Holcomb Valley, Witwatersrand Gold Rush, Mother lode, Amex Gold BUGS Index, Kitco, Asturias Gold Museum, Bulk leach extractable gold, Knelson concentrator, Mahd adh Dhahab, Saindak Copper Gold Project, Boundary Red Mountain Mine, Hand of Faith, Cradle, Mount Baker Gold Rush, Dore bar, World Gold Council, Bushiribana and Balashi, The Lost Cement Mine, Rocker box, Dry blowing, Ariab, The Ancient River of Gold, Chilean mill. Excerpt: Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge, based on the best authorities available to Pliny. He claims to be the only Roman ever to have undertaken such a work and prays for the blessing of the universal mother: Hail to thee, Nature, thou parent of all things! and do thou deign to show thy favour unto me, who, alone of all the citizens of Rome, have, in thy every department, thus made known thy praise. The work became a model for all later encyclopedias in terms of the breadth of subject matter examined, the need to reference original authors, and a comprehensive index list of the contents. The work is dedicated to the emperor Titus, son of Pliny's close friend, the emperor Vespasian, in the first year of Titus's reign. It is the only wo...