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GENERAL INDEX. 



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Derbyshire {see also High Peak). 



Early ore washing 281 



Introduction jigging sieve 283 



Mining law 77; 84—85 



Descent into Mines 212 



Devon. 



Mining law 85 



Dilleugher 267 



DiOPTRA 129 



Diphrygum 404 



Dip OF Veins 65 — 75 



DiPPAS 101 



Dippers 167 



Of pumps 172 



Discretores (see Sorters). 



Distillation 441 



For making nitric acid 441 



0£ amalgam 244 



Of quicksilver 426—432 



Distributor 78 



Divining Rod 38—40; 38; 40 



Divisions of the Compass 56 ; 57 



Drainage OF Mines 121; 171 — 198 



With buckets 171 



With chain pumps 172 



With rag and chain pumps 188 



With suction pumps 172 



With water bags 188 



Drawing. 



Knowledge necessary for miners... 4 



Drifts 104; 105; 101 



Timbering of 125 



Drusy Veins 107; 107 



" Drying " Liquation Residues {see 



a/so Liquation)... 527—529; 491; 492 



Furnaces for 521; 526; 492 



Silver extracted by 529 



Slags Irom 523 



Dumps, Working of 30 



Dust Chambers 394; 416; 354 



DuTiNS (Timbers) 101 



Dynamite 119 



" Earths." 



Agricola's view of 1; 46; 48 



Extraordinary 115 



Peripatetic view of 46; 47 



Egyptians. 



Alluvial mining 330 



Antimony 428 



Bronze 402; 411 



Copper smelting 402 



Crushing and concentration 279 



Furnaces 366 



Glass making 686 



Gold mining 399 



Iron 421 



Maps 129 



Mining law 83 



Silver and lead metallurgy 390 



Tin 411: 412 



Egyptian Screw {see Archimedes, 

 Screw of). 



Eifel. 



Spalling ore fTt 



Eiseneriz {see Ironstone). 



F.isenglantz {see Ironstone). 



ElSLEBEN. 



Heap roasting 278; 274 



Electrum 468; 2; 35 



Elements, Peripatetic Theory of 44 



Emery 116 



Erbisdorff. 



Tin strakes S04 



Excoctores {see Smelters). 

 Exhalations. 



From veins 38; 44 



Exhausted Liquation Cakes {see 

 Liquation Cakes, Exhausted). 



Fans, Ventilation 203 — 207 



Fathom 616; 77; 78 



Federwis {see also PLs\>essto&) 114; 274 



Feldspar 114 



Ferrugo {see Iron-rust). 



Ferrum puruin {see Native Iron). 



Fibres {see Stringers). 



Fineness, Scales of 



Fire-setting 118 — 120; 



Firstum Mines {see Fiirst). 

 Fissure Vein {see Vena profunda). 

 Flame. 



Determination of metal by 



Determination of required iiux by 



Flint, as a Flux 



Float, from Veins 



Flookan 



Flue-dust 



Fluores {see Fluorspar). 



Fluorspar 115 ; 



Indication of ore 



Fliisse {see Fluorspar). 

 Fluxes {see also Argol, Saltpetre, 

 Limestone, Stones which easily 



melt, etc.) 



232—239; 232; 237; 



Basic 



De-sulphurizing 



For smelting 379; 380; 



Reducing 



Stock fluxes for assaying 



Sulphurizing 



footwall 



Forehearth 356; 375 — 378; 



For tin furnaces 



Foreman {see Mining Foreman). 



Forest-Fires 



Forest of Dean 



Forest of Mendip 



Formae 



Fossa latens {see also Drifts) 



Fossa latens transversa (see also 



Crosscuts) 



Fossores (see Miners). 



Founders' Hoards 



Fractional Meers 



France. 



Mediaeval mining law 



Free Mining Cities 



Freiberg 



Age of the mines 



Bergmeister 



Division of shares 81 



First discovery of veins 



Flooding of mines 



Method of cupellation 



Fullers' Earth 



Fumes. 



From heated ore 



Poisonous 



Fundamentum (see also Footwall) ... 



Fundgrube (see also Meer) 



Furnaces 374—378 ; 386 ; 388 ; 



Assaying (see Assay Furnaces). 



Bismuth smelting 



Burning tin concentrates 



Cementation 



Copper smelting 



Cupellation 467 — 468; 



" Drying " liquated copper 



Enriching copper bottoms 



Gold and silver ores 



Heating copper cakes 



Iron smelting 420- 



Latin and German terms 



Lead ores 



Liquation of .silver 



Melting lead cakes 



Nitric acid making 



Parting precious metals with anti- 

 mony 



Quicksilver distillation 



Refining copper 



Refining silver 



Refining tin 



Roasting 



Smelting liquation slags 



Tin smelting 411- 



