Metals Collection (page 7)

Minerals / Extraction / 1891
Nitrate extraction plant, Alacama desert, Chile

Tin Miners / Camborne
Miners climbing from the sixty- to the fifty-fathom level in King Edwards mine, near Camborne, Cornwall

Swedish Iron Mine
A dramatic view inside the iron mines of Hogborn, Vestmann, Sweden

17th Century Furnaces
A high furnace of the 17th century

Panning Alluvial Gold
A New Zealand gold miner in wading boots sifts through the alluvial gold he has panned

Johannesburg Mine
The Village Deep Mine of the G M Company

Alchemy / Van Helmont
Alchemist Van Helmont (1577- 1644) is visited by a stranger who generously presents him with the Philosophers Stone which turns base metals into gold

Silver Mining Camp
A silver miners camp, Nevada (USA) Our picture represents the typical mining camp in one of the gullies that seam the mountains of the district

Tinsmith in Workshop
A tinsmith at work fashioning useful household objects such as watering cans out of tin; his children help in the workshop

Gold Washing, Brazil
Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains

Silversmiths at Work
Silversmiths at work - illustration to the prophecies of Jeremiah, chapter 6, who likens the wicked to repro- -bate silver which the Lord rejects as not up to standard

Steel - Converter
THOMAS CONVERTER

Steel - Casting
CASTING

Steel - Forge
THE FORGE

Steel - Blast Furnace
Foundry worker at the blast furnace

Steel - Electric Oven
High-Temperature Electric Oven

Steel - Rolling Mill
ROLLING MILL

Queensland Gold Rush
Encampment at New Zealand Gully, near Roehampton, Queensland

Silver Mining / Peru 1879
Bringing silver ore above ground by rail at Cerro de Pasco, Peru

Potosi Silver Mine 1884
A silver mine at Potosi, Bolivia

Tin Mining / Cornwall / 1869
Winze-shaft, or sinking in a Cornish tin mine

C17 Metalworker / Woodcut
A metalworker sits on a trestle and uses his hammer on a metal item softened by heating on that nearby stove

Bessemer Process / Pigiron
The Bessemer process for decarbonising pig-iron in a German factory

German Dowsers
German miners dowse for metals using a forked stick - this is probably the earliest depiction of a dowser at work

Dowsing / Wunschelrute
German miners dowse for metals using a Wunschelrute

Gold / Australia
Chinese miners washing sands for gold

Gold in California
A prospector, armed with pick and shovel, sieve and six- shooter

Klondike / Sluicing 1900
Sluicing on Number Two Claim, at Anvil Creek, Nome, Alaska, during the gold rush

First Shipload of Gold
A steamer leaves Dawson City, down the Yukon River, with the first consignment of gold from the diggings

Klondike / Snake River
Miners rocking on the Snake River, Alaska

A Gold Prospector
A gold prospector

Industry / Metals / Gold / Ame
Panning gold on the Yukon River, Klondike, Canada

Iron Forge in Workshop
The forge in the workshop of the International Exhibition building, London

Pounding a White-Hot Iron Bar
Metal workers pounding a white-hot iron bar. The workers are all quite young boys

Industry / Metals / Iron
Ethiopian metalworkers

Streets of Bendigo, Australia, during the Gold Rush
The streets of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, during the Gold Rush

Gold prospectors and families in camp, Australia
Prospectors and their families panning for gold in Australia

Gold prospectors panning in Australia
Prospectors panning for gold in Australia

Gold prospector panning in Australia
A gold prospector raising a bit of colour -- panning for gold in Australia

Panning for gold on the River Turon, Australia
Panning for gold at Sheep Station Point, on the River Turon in New South Wales, Australia

Copper works in Cornwall, with smoking chimneys
Copper works in Cornwall, with many smoking chimneys

A Bessemer converter in a German steelworks -- a process designed for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron, removing impurities by oxidation by blowing air through the molten iron

Paranormal / Alchemy
Dunikowski, a Polish engineer, demonstrates his process for changing base metals to gold in the laboratories of the Ecole Centrale, Paris

Steel Industry
Bessemer converter in a steel foundry

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