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The roasting of ore is an ancient technique, and was brought to the Victorian Goldfields by migrant miners. In this video we're going to take a closer look at the process of quartz roasting, checking out some very cool places along the way.

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Explore the Victorian Goldfields - [ Ссылка ]

Historical Gold Maps - [ Ссылка ]

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
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Quartz kiln image - Robert Kaufman

De Re Metallica, Georgius Agricola, 1556

Mining models - Carl Nordstrom, 1858. Museums Victoria

Chlorination diagram - SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 620
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 19, 1887

Historical images - State Library Victoria, Trove

Newspaper articles - Trove

History of the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company in connection with the Clunes mine. R. H. Bland. 1888. National Library of Australia

John Woodland, Sixteen Tons of Clunes Gold: A History of the Port Phillip and Colonial Mining Company

The Port Phillip Company's Quartz Works At Clunes, 1858 - [ Ссылка ]

Early Developments in Treating Pyritic and Refractory Gold Ores in Australia. KEN McQUEEN

Burning of Poisonous Quartz, 1867 - [ Ссылка ]

HISTORIC MINING SITES IN THE MALDON MINING DIVISION, David Bannear. 1993

The History and Archaeology of the North British Mine Site, Maldon, Victoria. CHRISTOPHER J. DAVEY

In-Ground Ore-Roasting Kilns on the Hauraki Goldfield, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. P.R. MOORE and N.A. RITCHIE

Report of the Royal Commission on Gold Mining, 1891

THE IDENTIFICATION OF MINING RELICS, Peter Milner

GOLD: Its occurrence and extraction. Alfred G. Lock, F.R.G.S. 1882

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