The Ivurunui Company, at the Thames are about to try an experiment, which, although by no means new, is likely to prove beneficial in saving gold. This is the substitution of electro-plate on the tables instead of the ordinary copper-plates, and Mr S. Wells has prepared a set which will be (ixed to a battery. The great advantage to be derived from the use of these plates is perfect cleanliness. None of that deleterious scum which sometimes rises on copperplates, when stuff thickly impreg uated with base mineral is being crushed, can arise where electro plating is used, be - cause nothing can touch the copper—there is always a silver surface. The process by which these sheets of copper have been electro-plated is of the description usually employed—a powerful galvanic battery and a quantity of silver held iu solution in a bath.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 181, 29 April 1873, Page 7
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