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Hushing

Hushing is an ancient and historic mining method using a flood or torrent of water to reveal mineral veins. The method was applied in several ways, both in prospecting for ores, and for their exploitation. Mineral veins are often hidden below soil and sub-soil, which must be stripped away to discover the ore veins. A flood of water is very effective in…

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Hushing

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related to References · 40
Hushing → Annels, BC, Blakey, Board, Book, Bulletin, Burnham, Cardiff, Celtic Studies, Clarendon Press, Dolaucothi, Duckworth, Early, Ed, Europe, Historical Society, Hodge, III-V, Jones, Journal
related to Later examples · 29
Hushing → Another, Britain, Ceredigion, Children, Cross Fell, Cumberland, Cumbria, Cwmystwyth, De, Elizabethan, Georgian, Georgius Agricola, Great Dun Fell, However, Mines, Mountain, Newcastle, Pennines, Royal Commission, Section
related to Earlier evidence · 25
Hushing → Alpine, Alps, Aosta, BC, Bessa, Book, Book IV, Chapter, From, Geographica, He, It, Italy, Later, Modern, Northern Italy, Polybius, Roman, Romans, Strabo
related to External links · 13
Hushing → Children, Cwmystwyth, Dun Fell, Gunnerdale, January, Mines, Royal Commission, Shedden CloughShedden Clough Hushings, TimberlakeShedings, Wales, Wayback MachineRoman, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Archived
related to Method · 9
Hushing → Dolaucothi, If, Las Médulas, Pliny, Spain, Such, The, The Romans, Wales
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Hushing → ancient and historic mining method using a flood or torrent of water to reveal mineral veins

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water gold used method mining mines roman also dolaucothi veins ore deposits lead large could romans alluvial book well wales

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Hushingis aancient and historic mining method using a flood or torrent of water to reveal mineral veins0.90text
fire-setting.Hushing was used during the formationinstance ofA flood of water is very effective in moving soil as well as working the ore deposits when combined with other methods0.80text
expansion of the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC on to the end of the empireinstance ofA flood of water is very effective in moving soil as well as working the ore deposits when combined with other methods0.80text
a swinging flap or a rising gateinstance ofpossibly a permanent fixture0.80text
the brow of a hill or mountaininstance ofHushing was most effective when used on steep ground0.80text
the force of falling water lessening as the slope becomes smallerinstance ofHushing was most effective when used on steep ground0.80text
those at Las Médulas in northern Spaininstance ofThe Romans developed the method into a sophisticated way of extracting large alluvial gold deposits0.80text
and for hard rock gold veins such as those at Dolaucothi in Walesinstance ofThe Romans developed the method into a sophisticated way of extracting large alluvial gold deposits0.80text
hushing would have been very effectiveinstance ofit is likely to have been an alluvial deposit where water methods0.80text
the extensive lead mines at Cwmystwyth in Ceredigioninstance ofand also in the 1842 Royal Commission on Children in Mines in relation to children being used in the lead mines of the Pennines.The remnants of hush gullies are visible at many…0.80text
Walesinstance ofand also in the 1842 Royal Commission on Children in Mines in relation to children being used in the lead mines of the Pennines.The remnants of hush gullies are visible at many…0.80text
and at the Stiperstones in Shropshireinstance ofand also in the 1842 Royal Commission on Children in Mines in relation to children being used in the lead mines of the Pennines.The remnants of hush gullies are visible at many…0.80text

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