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本帖最后由 namlow 于 2011-3-10 16:21 编辑
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以下介怡保何德铭医生写的"水笔"和"水力"采锡历史英文版本:
The Gopeng Tin Mining Company
By Dr Ho Tak Ming
The Gopeng Tin Mining Company was started by F. Douglas
Osborne, an Irish mining engineer who came to Kinta in 1890. He
was employed as manager of the Leh Chin Mine at Changkat Pari
near Ipoh where he introduced the first hydraulic monitor in the State.
However, the terrain at Changkat Pari was not suitable for hydraulic
mining as it was not sufficiently steep.
In 1893 Osborne obtained the concession of a hill at Gopeng which
was suitable for hydraulic mining. However, the drawback at Gopeng
was that there was insufficient water to work the mines - in fact, many
of the Chinese miners were leaving Gopeng for the newly-established
township of Kampar. Osborne proposed to pipe water in huge iron
pipes from the sources of the Sungei Kampar at the foothills of
Cameron Highlands, a distance of seven miles from Gopeng, to
work his monitors. He got James Wickett of Redruth and his Cornish
friends interested in the project. Ten shareholders subscribed £700
each to form the Gopeng Tin Mining Company, initially working with
two monitors. This was the first instance of hydraulic mining for tin in
the world. It was hugely successful and could work land profitably,
land that had been too poor to be used under any other system.
In 1894 Osborne procured an additional concession of 300 acres for
the company. Over time the shareholders invested another £11,000
to bring the number of monitors to ten in 1904, altogether spending
£18,000. On that basis the company was reconstructed. The profit
for 1905 alone was £18,000. All in all, Gopeng had paid back the
shareholders’ money several times over, making them the luckiest
accidental tin-miners in the country.
这是世上最早使用"水笔"水力的开采锡法!
"金山沟"没改, 只是不用人力挑上"金山沟"了,而是把水带矿的沙石等用电力送上去.
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