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Old Man with a Gold Chain is a portrait by Rembrandt, painted in oils on canvas around 1631. It is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot as a portrait of Rembrandt's father in 1915, who wrote: 675. HARMEN GERRITSZ VAN RIJN. Half-length, without hands; almost life size.
"Panning out" ~ Stereoscopic view of print taken by the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories ~ circa 1874–1879 Gold panning is a simple process. Once a suitable placer deposit is located, some alluvial deposits are scooped into a pan, where they are then wetted and loosed from attached soils by soaking, fingering, and aggressive agitation in water.
Seated Old Man: c. 1630: Red and black chalk: 14.5 x 14.3 cm: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: The drawing is related to the etching B325 : Bearded Old Man Seated in an Armchair: 1631: Red chalk on paper: 25 x 17 cm: Private collection, New York: Signed with the monogram RHL and dated 1631 Old Man Seated in an Armchair: 1631: Red chalk, frame line ...
The 17th-century drawing is attributed to the Flemish engraver and draftsman Willem Panneels (c. 1600–34). A newly acquired old master drawing at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Skip ...
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to more complex extraction processes such as pit mining and gold cyanidation. In the 20th and 21st centuries, most ...
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Portrait of a Young Man with a Gold Chain is an oil painting usually attributed to the Dutch painter Rembrandt. Signed and dated 1635, it was traditionally regarded as a self-portrait (under the title Self-Portrait with Beard Rising or Self-Portrait with a Gold Chain ), although contemporary criticism tends to challenge this hypothesis.
Gold Dredge, Klondike River, Canada, 1915 The Yankee Fork dredge near Bonanza City, Idaho, which operated into the 1950s. A gold dredge is a placer mining machine that extracts gold from sand, gravel, and dirt using water and mechanical methods. The original gold dredges were large, multi-story machines built in the first half of the 1900s.