626 



GENERAL INDEX. 



439; 



Mountains. page 



Formation of 595 



Mt. Bermius. 



Gold Mines of 26; 27 



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



Crushing and concentration of ores 281 



Cupeiiation 466 



Mining law 83 



Smelting appliances 355 



Xenophon on 6 



Mt. Sinai. 



Ancient copper smelting 355; 402 



Muffle Furnaces 224 — 228; 239 



Muffles 227; 239; 222 



Refining silver 4S9 — 490 



Muhlberg, Battle of X, 



Murrhina [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 



Neweottle Abbey 35 



Nitocris, Bridge of 391 



Nitric Acid [see also Aqua valens) ... 

 439—443; 400 



Assay parting gold and silver 



Testing silver regulus with 



Use in cleaning gold dust 



Nitrum (see also Soda) 



Nomenclature 



Mining law 



Mining officials 



Nonet 



Conveyance of ore 



Normans. 



Mining Law in England 



Notary 



Nubia. 



Early gold-mining 399 



Nuremberg, Scale of Weights .... 264 



Obolus 25 



Ochra nativa Ill 



Ochre Yellow Ill 



Offenbriiche (see Furnace Accretions). 

 Olynthus. 



Betrayal to Philip of Macedon 9 



Operculum 441; 222 



Orbis 141; 137 



Ore (see various metals. Assaying, 



Mining, etc.). 

 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 



558; 



I; 



354 

 248 

 449 

 396 



110 

 267 

 77 ; 78 

 77; 78 

 388 

 169 



85 

 94; 78 



Pactolus, Gold Sands of 



Park's Process 



Parting Gold from Copper 



Parting Gold from Silver 



443—460; 458—463 



Antimony sulphide 



451—452; 451—452 



27 



465 



462—464 



461 



PAGB 



Parting Gold from Silver. 

 Cementation... 453—457; 453—454; 458 



Chlorine gas ; 458; 462 



Electrolysis 458; 462 



Nitric acid 443—447; 443; 447; 400 



Nitric acid (in assay mg) 247 — 249 



Sulphur and copper ... 448 — 451 ; 448 ; 461 



Sulphuric acid 458; 462 



Partitions 493 



Passau, Peace of IX. 



Passus 616; 78 



Patio Process 297 — 298 



Paitinson's Process 466 



Peak, The (see High Peak). 



Pentremites 



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 



Pleigeel (see Lead Ochre). 

 Pleiweis (see White-lead). 



Plevgang Vein 



Plumbago 



Plumbum candidum 110 



Plumbum cmeieum 



Plumbum nigrum lutei coloris 



Plummet Level. 



Standing 



Suspended 145; 



Pockets in Alluvial Stuices 



Poisonous Fumes (see Fumes). 

 Poland. 



Cupeiiation 



Lead ore washing 



Lead smelting 



Poletae, Tablets of the 



Poling Copper 531 — 538; 



Pompeiopolis. 



Arsenic mine at 



Pompholyx 394; 113- 



From copper refinings 



From cupeiiation 



From dust-chambers 



From roasting ore 



Poisonous 



Used for brass making 



Porcelain Clay 



Potash 558—559; 558; 



In Sal artificiosus 



Pottery, Egyptian 



POTOSI 



Pozos de Anibal, Los 



Pous 



Praefectus cuniculi 



Praefectus fodinae (see Mine Manager). 

 Praefectus metallorum (see Mining 

 Prefect). 



Praeses cuniculi 78 



Praeses fodinae (see Mining Foreman). 



Precious and Base Metals 439 



Primgap 80 



Procurator metallorum 83 



Prospecting 35 



Proustite 109 



Pumps 171—200; 149 



Chain 171—175 



Rag and chain 188—200 



116 



11 



26; 27 



XII. 



47; 44 



18 



83 

 616; 78 

 231 ; 483 

 681—582 



11 



402 



24 



411—412 



152—153 



321—348 



42 



110 



; 3; 473 



111 ; 3 



110; 3 



143; 137 

 146; 137 

 322—330 



483 

 347 



392 



83 

 53.5—536 



111 

 -114; 403 

 538 

 476 

 394 

 278 

 214; 215 

 410 

 115 

 220 

 463 

 391 

 298 

 42 

 ; 78 

 78 



233; 



617 



