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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 (set Sorters). 



Distillation 441 



For making nitric acid 44i 



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 629 



Slags Irom 523 



Dumps, Working of 30 



Dust Chambers 394; 416; 354 



DUTINS (Timbers) 101 



Dynamite 119 



" Earths." 



Agricola's view of 1; 46; 48 



Extraordinary 115 



Peripatetic view of 46; 47 



Egyptians. 



.\lluvial 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 Scr'ew [see Archimedes, 

 Screw of). 



ElFEL. 



Spalling ore 272 



Eisenertz [see Ironstone). 

 Eisenglantz {see Ironstone). 



ElSLEBFN. 



Heap roasting 279; 274 



EleUrum 458; 2; 35 



Elements, Peripatetic Theory of 44 



Emery 115 



Ereisdorff. 



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 



Eederwis (see also Ash&sto^ 114; 274 



Feldspar 114 



Ferrugo (see Iron-rust). 



Ferrum purwn (see Native Iron). 



Fibres (see Stringers). 



Fineness, Scales OF 253; 617 



Fire-setting 118—120; 118—119 



Firstum Mines (see Fiirst). 



Fissure Vein [see Vena profunda). 



Flame. 



Determination of metal by 235 



Determination of required fiux by 235 



Flint, as a Flux 380 



Float, from Veins 37 



Flookan 101 



Flue-dust 394 — 396 



Fluores [see Fluorspar). 



Fluorspar 115; 380 



Indication of ore 



Fliisse (see Fluorspar). 



Fluxes (see also Argol, Saltpetre, 

 Limestone, Stones which easily 



melt, etc.) 



232—239; 232; 237; 380 



Basic 



De-sulphurizing 236 



For smelting 379; 380; 386; 390 



Reducing 236 ; 237 



381 

 116 



221 

 237 

 237 



236 



237 



36; 



Stock fluxes for assaying 



Sulphurizing 236 ; 



Footwall 68; 117 



Forehearth 356; 375—378; 386; 355 



For tin furnaces 411; 413 



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 355 



Fractional Meers 



France. 



MedicEval mining law 



Free Mining Cities 

 Freiberg 



Age of the mines . 



Bergmeister 



101 



XXXI. 



5 



95 



Division of shares 81; 90; 91 



First discovery of veins 35; 36 



Flooding of mines 218 



Method of cupellation 482 



Fullers' Earth 116 



Fumes. 



From heated ore 235 



Poisonous 215—216 



Fundamentum (see also Footwall) ... 101 



Fundgrube [see also Meer) 77 



Furnaces 374—378; 386; 388; 355; 492 

 Assaying (see Assay Furnaces). 



Bismuth smelting 433—437 



Burning tin concentrates 349 



Cementation 455 



Copper smelting 401 — 408 



Cupellation 467—468; 482—483 



" Drying" liquated copper 522-526 



Enriching copper bottoms 51 



Gold and silver ores 382 — 384 



Heating copper cakes 503 



Iron smelting 420—421; 420 



Latin and German terms 220 



Lead ores 408—410 



Liquation of silver 515 



Melting lead cakes 498 



Nitric acid making 441 



Parting precious metals with anti- 

 mony 452 — 453 



Quicksilver distillation 426—432 



Refining copper 531 — 533 



Refining silver 483; 489 



Refining tin 418 



Roasting 276—277 



Smelting liquation .slags 507 



Tin smelting 411—413; 419 



