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Excerpt from A Handbook of Gold Milling The process of differentiation, so essentially characteristic of all modern development, has of recent years extended very markedly into the province of the gold-miner. The time is not so long past since any ordinary miner was considered to be quite capable of taking a shift in the mill, and it was looked upon as part of his duty to be equally useful above and below ground. This state of things did well enough as long as rich reefs or rich portions of reefs, such as the superficial portions not uncommonly are, were alone worked; enough gold was won to more than pay expenses, and no one knew or even seemed to care how great the loss might be in the mill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.