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Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Levins <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Ashcroft and Tancanagno
> The book "The Elmore Mystery" by Peter Jenkins can be obtained from the
> publisher:-
> Dragonwheel Books,
> Sandcott
> Rectory Lane
> Pulborough
> West Sussex
> RH20 2AD
> United Kingdom
>
> ISBN 1 870177 50 9
>
> Price £24.95
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerard MacGill" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:02 AM
> Subject: Ashcroft and Tancanagno
>
>
> Belated comments on Ashcroft and Tancanagno, from a colleague who prefers
to
> remain anonymous.
>
> Re Ashcroft. There was another Ashcroft, one J.W. Ashcroft , who was also
> active in NSW mining at the same time as E.A. Ashcroft. JWA was a
principal
> of Savage and Ashcroft, Sydney mining consultants. The firm was consultant
> to the Kyloe copper mine at Adaminaby, which in 1911, installed (largely
at
> Ashcroft's instigation) what was probably the first successful flotation
> plant outside Broken Hill. The cost of the Minerals Separation plant was
> recovered in 5 months.(See Ralph Birrell's monograph, 'The Role of
Minerals
> Separation Ltd in the Development of the Flotation Process'.) Were the two
> Ashcrofts related?
>
> I would like to buy a copy of Peter Jenkins book 'The Elmore Mystery' if
> anyone could tell me where to get it from.
>
> Re Tancanagno. The comment 'Many such as it are used in the West Indies'
> sounds like a bit of Scots leg pulling. In 1619 the chances of there being
> Cornish or German style stamp mills in the West Indies would be very
remote.
> There were no mines then on the West Indian islands as far as I am aware.
> Atkinson may have been referring to Mexico when speaking of the West
Indies.
> Even if he was the Spanish gold mines in Mexico did not use stamp mills of
> the type derived from medieval European methods. Crushing of gold ore at
> Mexican mines was done in three ways: by the 'arrastra' in which heavy
> stones were dragged over the ore by mules: by the so-called Chilean wheel,
a
> large stone wheel set on edge moving around a circle and by the 'maza', a
> single pillar stamp operating in a mortar (Otis Young, 'Western Mining).
>
> Gerard MacGill
> 52 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159
> (08) 9335 7471; Facs (08) 9335 8241
>
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