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Question 1: Cornish stamps were used to crush small lumps of ________ into sand like material.
Heavy mineral sands ore depositsOreOre genesisSedimentary exhalative deposits

Question 2: Their use was described in medieval written sources of Styria (in modern-day ________), written in 1135 and another in 1175 AD.
HungaryPolandAustriaCzech Republic

Question 3: They were used in ________ for breaking ore, and in oil-seed processing for prior to pressing the oil from the milled seeds.
ArchaeologyMetallurgyMining engineeringMining

Question 4: [3] Here, the regularity and spacing of large indentations on stone ________ indicate the use of cam-operated ore stamps, much like the devices of later medieval mining.
ForgeAnvilMetalworkingForging

Question 5: They were used in medieval ________ to crush mineral ores.
AzerbaijanIran–Iraq WarIranIraq

Question 6: By the 11th century, stamp mills were in widespread use throughout the medieval Islamic world, from Islamic Spain and North Africa in the west to ________ in the east.
Central AsiaSouth AsiaMiddle EastSiberia

Question 7: [13] They were common in gold, silver and ________ mining regions of the US in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, in operations where the ore was crushed as a prelude to extracting the metals.
PlatinumRhodiumPalladiumCopper

Question 8: In Ickham in ________, a large metal hammer-head with mechanical deformations was excavated in an area where several Roman water-mills and metal waste dumps have also been traced.
KentRamsgateCanterburyMedway

Question 9: The widest application of stamp mills, however, seems to have occurred in Roman mining, where ________ from deep veins was first crushed into small pieces for further processing.
OreSedimentary exhalative depositsHeavy mineral sands ore depositsOre genesis

Question 10: Cornish stamps are stamp mills that were developed in ________ for use in tin mining in around 1850.
PlymouthCornwallBristolWiltshire
















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