626 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Mountains, page 



Formation of 595 



Mt. Bermius. 



GoldMinesof 26; 27 



Mt. Laurion, Mines OF ... 27; 27 — 29, -391 



Crushing and concentration of ores 281 



Cupellation 465 



Mining law 83 



Smelting appliances 365 



Xenophon on 6 



Mt. Sinai. 



Ancient copper smelting 355; 402 



Muffle Furnaces 224—228; 239 



Muffles 227; 239; 222 



Refining silver 489 — 490 



MuHLBERG, Battle of X. 



Murrhiiia (see Chalcedony). 



Muskets 11 



Mycenae. 



Copper 402 



Silver-lead smelting 391 



Names OF Mines 42 



Naphtha 581 



Native Copper 109 



Native Iron Ill 



Native Minerals 107 



Native Silver 269; 109 



Natron (see Nitrum). 



Neolithic Furnaces 355 



Neusohl, Method OF Screening Ore 290 



Newbottle Abbey 35 



Nitocris, Bridge of 391 



Nitric Acid (see also Aqua valens) ... 

 439—443; 460; 



Assay parting gold and silver 



Testing silver regulus with 



Use in cleaning gold dust 



Nitrum (see also Soda) 



Nomenclature 



Mining law 



Mining officials 



Norici 



Conveyance of ore 



Normans. 



Mining Law in England 



Notary 



Nubia. 



Early gold-mining 399 



Nuremberg, Scale of Weights .... 264 



Obelus 26 



Ochra nativa Ill 



Ochre Yellow Ill 



Offenbruche (see Furnace Accretions). 

 Olynthus. 



Betrayal to Philip of Macedon 9 



Operculum 441; 222 



Orbis 141; 137 



Ore (see various metals, Assaying, 



Mining, <<c.). 

 Ore Channels (see Canales), 

 Ore Deposits, Theory of ... XIII ; 43 — 53 



Ore Dressing 267 — 351 



Burning 273 



Hand spalling 271 — 272 



Sorting 268—271 



Orguia 78; 78; 617 



Orichalcum (see Aurichalcum) 



Orpiment Ill; 1; 222 



Colour of fumes 235 



Harmful to metals 273 



Indication of gold, etc 116 



Roasted from ore 273 



Use in assaying 237 



Outcrops 68; 43 



Ox-blood IN Salt Making 552 



Pactolus, Gold Sands of 27 



Park's P>ROCESs 465 



Parting Gold from Copper 462 — 464 



Parting Gold from Silver 



443—460; 468—463 



Antimony sulphide 



461—452; 4.>l-452; 461 



439; 354 

 248 

 449 

 396 



568; 110 



I; 267 



77; 78 



77; 78 



388 



169 



86 

 94; 78 



Parting Gold from Silver. 



Cementation... 453 — 457; 453— 



Chlorine gas 



Electrolysis 



Nitric acid 443—447; 443; 



Nitric acid (in assaying) 



Sulphur and copper ... 448 — 451 ; 



Sulphuric acid 



Partitions 



Passau, Peace of 



Passus 



Patio Process 



Pattinson's Process 



Peak, The (see High Peak). 



Pentremiies 



Pergamum. 



Brazen ox of 



Mines near 



Peripatetics 



Theory of ore deposits 



View of wealth 



Persians. 



Ancient mining law 



Pes 



Pestles 



Petroleum 



Phalaris. Brazen Bull of 



Philosophy. 



Knowledge necessary for miners... 

 Phoenicians. 



Copper and bronze 



In Thasos 



Tin 



Picks 



Pickscheifer (see Ash-coloured Copper) 



Placer Mining 



Pieigeel (see Lead Ochre). 

 Pleiweis (see White-lead). 



Pleygang Vein 



Plumbago 



Plumbum candidum 110 



Plumbum cinereum 



Plumbum nigrum lutei coloris 



Plummet Level. 



Standing 



Suspended 145; 



Pockets in Alluvial Stuices 



Poisonous Fumes (see Fumes). 

 Poland. 



Cupellation 



Lead ore washing 



Lead smelting 



Poletae, Tablets of the 



Poling Copper 531 — 538; 



pompeiopolis. 



Arsenic mine at 



Pompholyx 394; 113- 



From copper refinings 



From cupellation 



From dust-chambers 



From roasting ore 



Poisonous 



Used for brass making 



Porcelain Clay 



Potash 558—559; 558; 



In Sal artificiosus 



Pottery, Egyptian 



POTOSl 



Pozos DE Anibal, Los 



Pous 



Praefectus cuniculi 



Praefectus fodinae (see Mine Manager). 

 Praefectus metallorum (see Mining 

 Prefect). 



Praeses cuniculi 



Praeses fodinae (s«« Mining Foreman). 



Precious and Base Metals 



Primgap 



Procurator metallorum 



Prospecting 



Proustite 



Pumps 171— 



Chain 



Rag and chain 



454; 458 



458; 462 



458; 462 



447 ; 460 



247—249 



448; 461 



468; 462 



493 



IX. 



616; 78 



297—298 



466 



116 



11 



26; 27 



XII. 



47; 44 



18 



83 

 616; 78 

 231 ; 488 

 581—582 



11 



3 



402 



24 



411-412 



152—153 



321—348 



42 



110 



; 3; 473 



111 ; 3 



110; 3 



143; 137 

 146; 137 

 322—330 



34T 

 892 



83 



535—536 



Ul 



-114; 403 



638 



476 



394 



278 



214; 216 



410 



115 



233; 220 



46S 



391 



298 



42 



617; 78 



78 



78 



439 



80 



83 



35 



109 



200; 149 



171—175 



188-200 



