Crushing ore by hand

Illustration from a mid 19th Century book showing a woman using a bucket to crush lead ore. Illustrated in Le Neve Four CB Brough B. A Treatise in Ore A Stone Mining Landen 1905 (622.2) pp 582-3 States that illustration taken from "Henderson classic paper on the dressing of tins copper ores in Cornwall."

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