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 



.\boi.ite 113 



Abstrich 465; 492 



Abydos. 



Gold mines of 26; 27 



Lead figure from 390 



Ahzug 464: 465; 475 



Achates (see Agate). 



Accidents to Miners 214 — 218 



Accounts (Mining) 96 — 98 



Adit 101 



Aeris flos (see Copper Flowers). 

 Aeris squama (see Copper Scales). 



Aes caldariuni 109 



Acs luteum J09 



Aes nigrum 109 



Aes piinim fossile (see Native Copper). 

 Aes rude pUimliei coloris (see Copper 



Glance). 

 Aes ustum (see Roasted Copper). 



Aetites 2 



Africa. 



Iron 420 



Tin 412 



Agate 114 



Agriculture. 



Mining compared with S 



Ailments of Miners (see Maladies of 

 Miners) . 



Air Currents in Mines 121; 200 



Alabaster 114 



Alchemists XXVII— XXX ; 44; 608 



.\gricola's opinion of XII; XXVII. 



Amalgamation 297 



Assaying 248; 219 



Discovery of acids 439; 460 



Distillation 441 



Aljustpel Tablet 83 — 84 



Alkali 558 



Alloys. Assaying of 247 — 252 



Alluvial Mining 321 — 348; 330 — 332 



Alston Moor 84 



Altenberg XXXI; VI. 



Collapse of mine 216 



Miners poisoned 214 



Tin working appliances 290; 304; 318 



Alum 564—588; 564—570 



A solidified juice 1 



Elizabethan Charter 283 



In roasted pyrites 350 



In Sal artificiosus 463 



Latin and German terms 220; 221 



Papal monopoly 570 



Use in making nitric acid 439; 460 



Amalgam. 



Parting the gold from 298; 297 



Amalgama-'ion 297 



Of gilt objects 461 



Mills 295—299 



Amber 34; 35 



Amethyst 114 



Amiantus (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 



.\ntimony Sulphide 220; 428; 451 



Parting gold and silver with 451 ; 451 ; 461 



Parting gold from copper 463 



Parting silver and iron 544 



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Antwerp, Scale ok Weights 263 



Apex Law 81; 83—86 



Aqua regia 439; 441; 354 



Aqua valens (see also Nitric Acid)... 



439—443; 439; 220 



Clarification with silver 443; 443 



Cleansing gold-dust with 396 



Parting precious metals with 443 — 447 



Arbores dissectae (l^a.%%,\ng) 101 



Archimedes, Screw OF 149 



Architecture. 



Knowledge necessary for miners 4 

 Area fodinarum (see Meer). 

 Argentiferous Copper Ores, 



Smelting OF 404 — 407 



Argentite 109 



Argentum purum in veiiis (see Native 



Silver). 

 Argentum rude plumbei coloris (see 



Silver Glance). 

 Argentum rude rubrum translucidum 

 (see Ruby Silver). 



Argol 234; 220 



As a fiux 234; 238; 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 115 



.\rsenic (see also Orpiment and 



Realgar) HI; 214 



Arsenicum Ill 



.Arsenopyrite Ill 



Asbestos 440; 440; 114 



Ash-coloured Copper 



539—540; 540; 523—524; 492 



From liquation 529 — 530 



.Ashes which Wool Dyers use (see 



a/so 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 581 



Asphaliites (see Dead Sea). 

 .\ss.^Y Balances (see Balances). 

 Assay Flu.xes (see Fluxes). 



Assay Furnaces 224 — 228; 220 



Crucible 226—227 



Muffle 224—228; 239 



.Assaying (see also Probierbiichlein) ... 



219; 219; 220: 354 



Amalgamation • 243 



Bismuth 247 



Copper 244 



Cupellation 240 



Gold and sUver 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 Muffles). 



Assay Ton 261; 242 



Assyrian Copper 402 



.Asthma 214 



Astronomy. 



Knowledge necessary for miners... 4 

 .\tarnea. 



Mines near 26; 27 



.\thens. 



Mining law 88 



Sea power and mines 27 



