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GENERAL INDEX. 



PAGE 



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 157 



Of pumps 172 



Discretores (see Sorters). 



Distillation 441 



For making nitric acid 441 



Of 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 198 



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 from 523 



Dumps, Working of 30 



Dust Chambers 394; 416; 354 



DuTiNS (Timbers) 101 



Dynamite 119 



" Earths." 



Agricola's view of I; 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 355 



Glass making 586 



Gold mining 399 



Iron 421 



Maps 129 



Mining law 83 



Silver and lead metallurgy 390 



Tin 411; 412 



Egyptian Screw (see Archimedes, 

 Screw of). 



ElFEL. 



Spalling ore 272- 



Eiseneriz (see Ironstone). 

 F.isenglantz (see Ironstone). 



ElSLEBFN. 



Heap roasting 279; 274 



Electrum 458; 2; 35 



Elements, Peripatetic Theory of 44 



Emery 115 



Erbisdorff. 



Tin strakes 304 



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 h.'sbesto^ 114; 274 



Feldspar U4 



Ferrugo (see Iron-rust). 



Ferrum puruin (see Native Iron). 



FibrtF (see Stringers). 



Fineness, Scales of 



Fire setting 118 — 120; 



Firstum Mines (see Fiirst). 

 Fissure Vein (see Vena profunda). 

 Flame. 



Determination of metal by 



Detennination of required flux 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 



F imdantentum (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 — 463; 



" 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 



Roastin g 



Smelting liquation slags 



Tin smelting 411— 



253; 617 

 118—119 



235 

 235 



380 



37 



101 



394—396 



380; 381 

 116 



380; 221 

 237 

 236; 237 

 386; 390 

 236 ; 237 



236; 

 68; 



236 



237 

 117 



386 ; 355 

 411 ; 413 



39; 36 



84 



84 



101 



101 



101 



355; 402 

 SO 



84 



84 



XXXI. 



5 



95 



; 90; 91 



35; 36 



218 



482 



115 



235 

 215—216 



101 



77 

 355; 492 



433—437 

 349 

 455 



401—408 



482—483 



522-526 

 510 



382—384 

 503 



421 ; 420 

 220 



408—410 

 515 

 498 

 441 



452—453 

 426—432 

 531—533 

 483; 489 



418 

 276—277 



507 

 413; 419 



