628 



GENERAL INDEX. 



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SCORIFICATION AsSAY 239 



ScoRiFiER 228; 230; 222 



Assays in 238; 239 



Screening Ore {see Sifting Ore). 



Screens {see also Screening) 267 



In stamp-mill 315 



Scriba fodinarum [see Mining Clerk). 

 Scriba magistri melallicorum (see 



Bergmeister's Clerk). 

 Scriba pariium (i«e Share Clerk). 



Scum OF Lead FROM CupELLATiON ... 475 

 Scythians. 



Wealth condemned 9; 15 



Seams IN THE Rocks 72; 43; 47 



Indications of ore 67; 107 



Sea-Water, Salt FROM 545—546 



Sestetce 448 



Sett 77 



Settling Pits 316; 267 



Sn.iFT- HOUSES 102 



Shafts 102—107; 122—124 



Surveys of 129—135 



Venae cumulatae 128 



Shakes 101 



Share Clerk 97; 93; 78 



Share in Mines {see Companies, 



Mining). 



Shears for Cutting Native Silver 269 



Shift 99; 92 



Shoes (stamp) 285—286; 267 



Shovellers 153; 169; 78 



Sideritis (see Lodestone). 

 Siegelstein {see Lodestone). 

 Sieves. 



For charcoal 375 



For crushed ore 287 — 293; 341 



Sifting Ore 287 — 293 



Signalor publicus {see Notary). 

 Silberweis {see Mica). 



Silex 114; 118 



Silver {see also Assaying, Liquation, 



Parting, Refining, eic)... 390; 354; 109 



Amalgamation 297; 300 



Assaying 248 — 251 



Cupellation 464—483; 241 



" Drying " copper residues from 



liquation 629 



Enrichment in copper bottoms ... 510; 510 



Exhausted liquation cakes 524 



Indicated by bismuth, etc 116 



Liquation 505—507; 506; 509; 512 



Parting from gold {see Parting Gold 

 and Silver). 



Parting from iron 544; 544 



Precipitation from solution in 



copper bowl 444 



Refining 483—490; 465; 484 



Smelting of ores 



381—382; 386; 388; 390; 400; 402 



Use in clarification of nitric acid... 443 ; 443 

 Silver, Ruby {see Ruby Silver). 



Silver Glance 109 



Assaying 244 



Cupellation 473 



Dressing 269 



Silver-Lead Alloy {see Stannum, etc.). 



Silver Ores 109; 109 



Assaying 242 — 244 



Assaying cupriferous ores 245 



Fluxes required in assaying 235 



Smelting cupriferous ores 404 — 407 



Silver-Plating 460 



Silver Refiner 95; 78 



Silver Refining {see Refining). 



Silver Veins 117 



Singing by Miners 118 



Sintering Concentrates 401 



Slags {see also Liquation Slags) 222 



From blast furnace 379; 381 



From liquation 491; 492; 523 



Slaves AS Miners 23; 83 



In Greek mines 25; 25; 28 



Slough (tunnel) 101 



Sluices 319; 322 — 348 



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Smallite 113 



Smalt 112 



Smega 404 



Smelters 78 



Smelting (see a/so vanoMs melals) 



379—390; 353—355 



Assaying compared 220 



Building for 355—361 



Objects of 353 



Smirgel {see Emery). 

 Smiris {see Emery). 

 Smyrna. 



Mines near 27 



Snake-bites 31 



Sov>\ {see also Nitrum)... 558; 559; 233; 222 



As a flux 233; 234 



Historical notes 558; 354 



Solidified juice 1 



Sole 101 



Solidified Juices {see Juices, 

 Solidified). 



Solifuga 216; 216 



Sorters 78 



Sorting Ore 268 — 271 



Sory 112; 403; 573 



Sows 376; 386; 376 



Spain {see also Lusitania). 



.\ncient silver-lead mines 149; 392 



.Ancient silver mines of Carthage 27 



Ancient tin mines 411 — 412 



Spalling Ore 271 — 272 



Spangen (see Trochitis). 

 Spanschgrun (see Verdigris). 

 Spartans. 



Gold and silver forbidden 9; 15 



Interference with Athenian mines 27 

 Spat (see Heavy Spar). 



Spelter 409 



Sphalerite 113 



Spiaiiter 409 



Spiesglas {see Stibium). 



Spines of Fishes for Cupels 230 



Spodos 538; 394; 113; 114 



Spuma argenli (see Litharge). 

 Staffordshire. 



First pumping engine 149 



Stalagmites 114 



Stall Roasting 350 — 351 



Stamp 267 



For breaking copper cakes 501 — 503 



For crushing crucible lining 373 — 375 



Stamping Refined Silver 489 



Stamp-mill 279—287; 281—282; 267 



Wet ore 312—314; 319—321 



Standing Plummet Level (see 

 Plummet Level). 



Stannaries 85 



Stannum 473; 2; 384; 492 



Steel 423—426; 422—423; 354 



Steiger 77 



Steinmack {see Porcelain Clay). 



Stemple (stull) 101 



Stephanite 109 



Sternen Mine 92; 75 



Steward (of High Peak mines) 77 



St. George Mine (Schneeberg) ... 92; 74; 75 

 Stibium {see also Antimony and Anti- 

 mony Sulphide) ... 110; 428; 2; 221 



Flux to be added to 235 



In assaying 237—239 



In cementation 458 — 460 



Indication of silver 116 



In making nitric acid 440 



In parting gold and silver... 451 — 452; 459 



In parting gold from copper 464 



In treatment of gold concentrates 396 ; 397 



Stibnite 428; 451 



St. Lorentz Mine 74; 92 



Stock werke (see Vena cumulata). 

 Stoics. 



Views on wealth 18 



Stomoma 423 



Stone Juice 46; 49 



