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Gold/Mining/Energy : Medinah Mining Inc. (MDHM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Gold who wrote (6025)	9/9/1998 11:21:00 AM
From: Mike Gold	Respond to of 25548

About those trapiches... The trapiches were water powered-they usually consisted of two massive grinding stones mounted vertically on horizontal axles and turning in a circular stone trough which was plied with water. The ore was crushed between the trough and wheels and gold recovered by panning, or later, by amalgamation. From the House Report, "There are ancient 'lavaderos' in the area of the Breccia Zone vvhere high grade mineralized rocks were milled by crushing on flat rocks and washing the pulverized material in bateas or gold pans to recover free gold. The vein on the Veta Espanoles, to the west, was mined by open pit methods and the nearby dry creek or quebrada was placer mined, shown by the stacks of oversize boulders along the course of the creek bed. It is believed these old workings were from pre-Spanish times." You need to look for old trapiche stones in Chile to find out where the gold use to be. Now if the Spanish can mill gold in the 1500's why can't MDIN get its act together to it now? :)