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GENERAL INDEX. 



Note. — The numbers in heavy type refer to the Text; 

 those in plain type to the Footnotes, Appendices, etc. 



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Abandonment of Mines 217 



Abertham. 



Mines at 74; 92; 74 



Abolite 113 



Abstrich 465; 492 



Abydos. 



Gold mines of 26; 27 



Lead figure from 390 



Ahiug 464: 466; 475 



Achates (see Agate). 



Accidents to Miners 214—218 



Accounts (Mining) 98—98 



Adit 101 



Aeris flos {see Copper Flowers). 

 Aeris squama {see Coppec Scales). 



Aes caldarium 109 



Aes luteum 109 



Aes nigrum 109 



Aes punim fossile {see Native Copper). 

 Aes rude plumhei coloris {see Copper 



Glance). 

 Aes ustum {see Roasted Copper). 



AetUes 2 



Africa. 



Iron 420 



Tin 412 



Agate 114 



Agriculture. 



Mining compared with 5 



Ailments of Miners (see Maladies of 

 Miners). 



Air Currents IN Mines 121; 200 



Alabaster 114 



Alchemists XXVII— XXX ; 44; 608 



.Agricola's opinion of XII; XXVII. 



Amalgamation 297 



Assaying 248; 219 



Discovery of acids 439; 460 



Distillation 441 



Aljustrel Tablet 83 — 84 



Alkali 658 



Alloys. Assaying of 247—252 



Alluvial Mining S21— 348 ; 330—332 



Alston Moor 84 



Altenberg XXXI; VI. 



Collapse of mine 216 



Miners poisoned 21 4 



Tin working appliances 290; 304; 318 



Alum 664—568; 564—570 



.A solidified juice 1 



Elizabethan Charter 283 



In roasted pyrites 850 



In Sal artificiosus 468 



Latin and German terms 220; 221 



Papal monopoly 570 



Use in making nitric acid 439; 460 



Amalgam. 



Parting the gold from 298; 297 



Amalgamation 297 



Of gilt objects 461 



Mills 295 — 299 



Amber 34; 35 



Amethyst 114 



Amianlus (see Asbestos). 



Ampulla 445-447; 220 



Annaberg VI; XXI; 42; 75; 75 



Profits 92 



Ant, venomous 216 



Antimony 220; 428; 354 



Minerals 110 



Smelting of 400; 428 



Use as type-metal 2; 429 



Antimony Sulphide 220; 428; 451 



Parting gold and silver with 451 ; 451 ; 461 



Parting gold from copper 463 



Parting silver and iron 544 



PAGB 



Antwerp, Scale of Weights 268 



Apex Law 81; 83—86 



Aquaregia 439; 441; 354 



Aqua valens (see also Nitric Acid)... 



43»— 443; 439; 220 



Clarification with silver 443; 413 



Cleansing gold-dust with 306 



Parting precious metals with 443 — 447 



Arbores disseclae (Lagging) 101 



Archimedes, Screw of 140 



Architecture. 



Knowledge necessary for miners 4 

 Area fodinarum (see Meer). 

 Argentiferous Copper Ores, 



Smelting OF 404 — 407 



Argentite 109 



Argentum purum in venis [see Native 



Silver). 

 Argentum rude plumbei coloris {set 



Silver Glance). 

 Argentum rude rubrum translucidum 

 (see Ruby Silver). 



Argol 234; 220 



As a flux 234; 236; 243 



Use in melting silver nitrate 447 



Use in smelting gold dust 396 — 398 



Argonauts 330 



Arithmetical Science. 



Knowledge necessary for miners... 4 



Armenia, Stone of IIS 



Arsenic (see also Orpiment and 



Realgar) HI; 214 



Arsenicum Ill 



Arsenopyrite Ill 



Asbestos 440; 440; 114 



Ash-coloured Copper 



539-540; 540; 623—524; 492 



From liquation 629 — 530 



.\shes which Wool Dyers use (see 



also Potash) 233; 559; 220 



Use in assaying 236 — 238 



Ash OF Lead 237—238; 237; 220 



Ash of Musk Ivy (see also Potash 



and Nitrum) 236—238; 220 



Asphalt 681 



Asphaltites (see Dead Sea). 

 Assay Balances (see Balances). 

 Assay Fluxes (see Fluxes). 



Assay Furnaces 224—228; 220 



Crucible 228-227 



MuflSe 224—228; 239 



Assaying (see also Probierbiichlein) ... 



219; 219; 220; 351 



Amalgamation 248 



Bismuth 247 



Copper 244 



Cupellation 240 



Gold and silver alloys 248 



Gold ore 242—244 



Iron ore 247 



Lead 245-246 



Silver 242—245 



Silver and copper alloys 249 — 250 



Tin 246 



Tin and silver alloys 251 



Assay Muffles (see MufiSes). 



Assay Ton 261; 242 



Assyrian Copper 402 



Asthma 214 



Astronomy. 



Knowledge necessary for miners... 4 

 Atarnea. 



Mines near 26; 27 



Athens. 



Mining law 83 



Sea power and mines 27 



