Stamp mills had been used in Europe for at least 500 years by the time the technology reached Butte. This illustration of a stamp mill appeared in Georgius Agricola’s classic 1556 treatise, De Re Metallica. Agricola (whose name at birth was George Bauer) was a German physician living in Freiberg who studied the metal mines in the region around his city. Written in Latin, his book stood as the leading practical textbook for miners in Europe for almost 200 years. It stands today as a valuable source for the history of mining technologies. | Source: Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, translated from the Latin by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1950 edition of the original 1912 publication), 284.
Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, translated from the Latin by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1950 edition of the original 1912 publication), 284.
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