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The Item for sale is for three (3) copies of the note card "Gold Mine North Island".
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The cards will be printed on Matte paper using original Epson Ultrachrome pigment inks.
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The paper and inks are archival quality.
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The cards are suitable for framing.
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We ship worldwide in safe Stay Flat envelopes
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If you are purchasing multiple items within a period of three days, please do not pay for an item until you have made ALL your purchases. I will generate an invoice which includes the shipping discount for multiple purchases.
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The actual dimensions of the cards will be 5X7 inches when folded.
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Each card includes an envelope.
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The inside of each card is blank.
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Time-less-image's customer service goal is simple: We are committed to providing our customers total satisfaction. Every time. Guaranteed.
Purchase larger 8x10 inch print
Time-Less-Image is proud to offer our collection of Christmas, Note cards and Prints. The artwork was created digitally, using Corel Painter, the world's leading natural media painting application and Photoshop. This piece, "Gold Mine North Island", was taken during 2003 in New Zealand, as a raw digital image and processed in Photoshop.
In the Coromandel on the North Island the Bullion (Gold and Silver) is mostly concentrated in "reefs" of Quartz which were followed underground and largely mined by hand during the important initial years. The Quartz was then broken up to cm size pieces in jaw crushers then Stamper Batteries were used to pound the quartz to a fine powder releasing particles of Gold. The Stampers crushed the ore by lifting and dropping huge iron stamps onto the ore. The stamps were raised and dropped using cams driven by water wheels, Pelton water turbines or steam engines. Once reduced to a fine powder the initial separation was on vibrating water covered tables or amalgamating tables covered with a thin layer of mercury on the surface which trapped and amalgamated the gold.
A lot was missed and the heavy 'tailings' were then further treated in Berdans - inclined, revolving cast-iron basins containing a heavy iron block. The slow revolving action ground the sludge even finer enabling even tiny particles of Gold to be freed and recovered by amalgamation with mercury which was in the bottom of the Berdan. When the Mercury got thick the amalgam was separated by squeezing the paste through a chamois leather and distilling off the mercury from the Gold and Silver which was melted and cast into bars. These techniques only extracted about 50% of the Bullion and were latter augmented by a Cyanide treatment which increase the extraction to about 90%.
On the back of each card:
Gold Mine, North Island, New Zealand
Equipment for the separation of gold from the mud.
The process employed in the computer darkroom does not involve heavy plates, long exposure times, nor toxic chemicals. However, as with the early pioneers, the final image is a function of light, tone and composition. Relieved of the dangers associated with the original process, we can only hope to some day master a technique that "mirrors the truth". At Time Less Image we continue to seek exquisite beauty in our images, exploring all techniques, old and new.
Our objective at Time Less Image is to offer the public unique, affordable, original fine art note cards and prints. Initially the collection will consist of original photographs and digital graphic art. In the future we anticipate offering original and reproductions from natural media such as Etchings.
Sincerely,
Jack Egan
Rachel Cochrane
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