Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
84.09.003
Accession#:
84.09
Credit Line:
Transferred from the City and Borough of Juneau.
Object Name:
Sample, Mineral
Title:
Danish Flintstone Pebble
Date:
1925
Year Range from:
1920
Year Range to:
1930
Description:
Small heavy ovoid rough textured silver and gray stone.
Notes:
Found in collections in Last Chance Mining Museum. (Compressor Building). These objects were acquired when city purchased Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. properties in 1974 from AEL&P who had purchased the properties from Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. in 1972.
"Formerly used at Alaska Gastineau Mill (tube mills) to reduce gold bearing quartz" E. Keithahn "Alaska For The Curious". Pebbles were also used at the refinery at Treadwell to further crush concentrates. Actually from Greenland and shipped via Denmark.
"Formerly used at Alaska Gastineau Mill (tube mills) to reduce gold bearing quartz" E. Keithahn "Alaska For The Curious". Pebbles were also used at the refinery at Treadwell to further crush concentrates. Actually from Greenland and shipped via Denmark.
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Danish Flintstone Pebble
Danish Flintstone Pebble