Goldstone Resources fka GRC

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The cyanide plant was invented in 1890.

They had bromide and chlorine gas leaching of gold ore in 1870.

Before that they had gravity concentration, with machines called buddles, developed in England.

http://www.littletongov.org/history/othertopics/leyner.asp

They had a type of rotary drill for drilling rock which used rock dust and a wooden drill about 1500.

1905 equipment manufacturing plant.



Modern mining milestones...

http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/Resources/Industrial_Resources.cfm

 
 1849 	Mine equipment powered by compressed air in Britain, Govan Colliery. (Glasgow, Britain) 	52 
 1849 	Dense-air compression machine (air refrigerator) invented. (John Gorrie, Charleston, SC) 	57 
 1850 	Britain adopts Coal Mines Inspection Act. (Britain) 	52 
 1850 	Steam-powered rock drill invented: nearly modern. (Charles Fowle, Boston) 	52 
 1850 - 1900 	Coal cutter machinery (H4) stimulated by electrical power and transmission development.   	52 
 1850 	Oil refining begins.  	53 
 1852 	Coal-cutting (chain) Disc machine patented: makes vertical shearing cuts at sides of heading. (Waring, Britain) 	52 
 1853 	1,600 tons of ice a day produced: double-acting vacuum and compression pump with sulfuric ether. (Alex. Twining, New Haven, Conn) 	57 
 1854 	First deep gas well sunk at Erie (1,200 feet deep). (Erie, Pa) 	52 
 1854 	First self-contained breathing apparatus: predates gas-mask for mining rescue work. (Schwann) 	54 
 1856 	Aniline dye (mauve) discovered: leads to rise of coal-tar industry. (Wm Henry Perkins, Germany) 	51 
 1857 	Chilled meat exported: uses vapor-compression machine. (James Harrison, Australia) 	57 
 1859 	Drake strikes oil: launches US oil industry*. (Edwin Drake, Titusville, Pa) 	52 
 1860 ca. 	Septic tank principle used in Automatic Scavenger. (L Mouras, France) 	55 
 1860 	Ammonia absorption machine. (F P E Carre, France) 	57 
 1861 	Kerosene made from oil entirely displaces the product from coal in the US. (US) 	51 
 1861 	Gas producer devised: recognized as successful. (K W Siemens) 	51 
 1862 	Rotary diamond core drill patented:  in France and Britain. (Rodolphe Leschot, France)  	52 
 1862 	Air refrigerator improved: regenerator added. (Kirk) 	57 
 1863 	Turbine-powered Disc machine for coal cutting patented: improvement added with rotary action. (Thomas Harrison, Durham, Britain) 	52 
 1863 	Oil refining in Cleveland develops. (John D Rockefeller, Cleveland) 	53 
 1867 - 1870 	Steam-gas generating apparatus patented: used for illuminating. (Hiram S Maxim, Fitchburg, Mass)  	51 
 1868 	Compressed-air plant built to refrigerate food (limited power). (Paris)  	57 
 1870 ca. 	Diamond-drill channeling machine devised for quarrying stone, especially marble. (Albert Ball, Windsor, Vt)  	52 
 1870 ca. 	Disintegrator for coal crushing developed. (Carr) 	52 
 1871 	American Institute of Mining Engineers founded. (US) 	52 
 1871 	American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc, (AIME) formed. (New York) 	52 
 1871 	Rock drill patented: improved by Henry C Sergeant 1885-1886. (Simon Ingersoll, New York) 	52 
 1872 	Ammonia-compression machine for producing ice invented. (David Boyle) 	57 
 1873 	Water-gas process, by Tessie du Motay and Thaddeus Lowe, developed. (Motay andLowe, US) 	51 
 1873 	Open-cycle air machines made:  proposed by Kelvin and Rankine, 1852. (Giffard) 	57 
 1873 - 1875 	Refrigerated warehouses (NYC and London) and commercial transatlantic ship built (CELTIC). (Carroll L Riker, New York) 	57 
 1873 - 1876 	Ammonia-compression system for (brewery) refrigeration: based on vapor compression work. (Carl von Linde, Munich) 	57 
 1875 ca. 	Cyclic gas generator produces 'blue water gas' and continuous fixed-bed gas producers developed.   	51 
 1876 	Pioneer Oil Refinery* begins commercial refinery operations: first in West. (Andrews Station, Calif)  	53 
 1877 	Successful refrigerator car patented. (Joel Tiffany, US) 	57 
 1878 	Dry-air compressor patented: reciprocating three-stage with water jackets, etc. (Peter Brotherhood, Britain) 	52 
 1879 	Proto breathing apparatus produced: early gas-mask device for mining rescue work. (Fleuss)  	54 
 1880 - 1899 	Standard cable-tool drilling developed; rotary grinding and drilling (oil production) is introduced in 1890s.   	52 
 1880 ca. 	Open-cycle air machine made. (Bell and Coleman) 	57 
 1884 	Apparatus for radial-axis system of coal mining patented. (Wm L Saunders) 	52 
 1886 	First patent for cracking. (Benton, Titusville, Pa)  	53 
 1886 - 1900 	Apparatus to detect and record deadly gases patented: used worldwide, especially for mining. (Thomas Shaw, Pennsylvania) 	54 
 1888 	Electric machinery for soft-coal mines manufactured: generators, locomotives, undercutters, etc. (Elmer A Sperry) 	52 
 1888 	Westinghouse acquires rights to Telsa's induction motor and Polyphase system. (Telsa, Westinghouse, US) 	59 
 1888 	Patent for polyphase induction motor (AC electrification) issued. (Nikola Tesla) 	59 
 1891 	Wilkinson automatic mechanical stoker invented: used on ocean liners and in large factories. (Alfred Wilkinson, Philadelphia) 	59 
 1892 	Large-scale experimental plant to extract pure nickel erected. (Ludwig Mond, Smethwick) 	53 
 1893 	Method for underground distribution and recovery of anhydrous ammonia patented. (John Edwin Starr, St Louis) 	57 
 1895 	Septic tank manufactured and patented: resulting gas used as fuel for illumination. (D Cameron, Britain) 	55 
 1895 	Machine for air liquefaction constructed: produces commercially pure oxygen. (Karl von Linde, Munich) 	57 
 1897 	Fixed platform for offshore drilling patented; S Lewis develops mobile platform. (Thomas F Rowland, off Calif)  	52 
 1897 - 1907 	Leyner hammer drill introduced: replaces piston drills by 1907 (invented 1902, patented 1903-04--A2). (J George Leyner, Littleton, Colo) 	52 
 1898 	Scientific forestry program begins with establishment of US Bureau of Forestry, conservation movement. (Gifford Pinchot, US) 	50 
 1899 	Open pit mining pioneered by Daniel Jackling and Robt Gremmel: adopted at Bingham copper mine in 1910. (Jackling, Gremmel, Utah) 	52 
 1899 	Refuse Act administered by Army Corps of Engineers: Act of 1972 transferred control to EPA. (US) 	55 
 	top  20th Century 	 
 1900 	Drilling method for raising sulfur from deep deposits developed. (Herman Frasch, US) 	52