Posted by Jock on June 19, 2006 at 15:34:07 from 81.76.86.2 user Jock.
In Reply to: Gold in them thare hills posted by Eric Abraham on June 19, 2006 at 13:51:11:
the gold being chemically combined in the rock (called telluride) which had to be crushed and then smelted to remove the gold... .I would doubt if the English crucibles for assay purposes would differ much in design
I think we've gone down the wrong branch line! Whatever Jim Turner may have been up to in South America, in the Lakes he was looking for copper, not gold. Unlike Dick, he would not have been trying to smelt the ore, just carry out some qualitative and quantative analysis. A nest of ordinary clay crucibles would suffice.