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GENERAL INDEX.
Note.—The numbers in heavy type refer to the Text ;
those in plain type to the Footnotes, Appendices, etc.
PAGE
Abandonment of Mines .............              217
Abertham.
Minesat ........................... 74; 92; 74
Abolite ....................................              113
Abstrich.....................................   465; 492
Abydos.
Gold mines of...........................       26; 27
Lead figure from......................              390
Abzug .............................. 464:   465; 475
Achates (see Agate).
Accidents to Minsks..................    214—218
Accounts (Mining)......................        96—98
Adit ........................................              101
Aeris flos (see Copper Flowers).
Aeris squama (see Copper Scales).
Aes caldarium ............................              109
Aes luteum.................................              109
Aes nigrum.................................              109
Aes purum fossile (see Native Copper).
Aes rude plumbei coloris (see Copper
Glance).
Aes ustum (see Roasted Copper).
Aetites .......................................                  2
Africa.
Iron .......................................              420
Tin........................................              412
Agate .......................................              114
Agriculture.
Mining compared with...............                  5
Ailments of Miners (see Maladies of
Miners).
Air Currents in Mines...............   121 ; 200
Alabaster.................................              114
Alchemists...... XXVII—XXX; 44; 608
Agricola's opinion of............ XII ;. XXVII.
Amalgamation.........................              297
Assaying .................................   248; 219
Discovery of acids ...................   439; 460
Distillation ..............................              441
Aljustrel Tablf.t .....................        83—84
Alkali .....................................              558
Alloys. Assaying of ..................    247—252
Alluvial Mining......... 321—348;   330—332
Alston Moor............................                84
Altenberg........................... XXXI; VI.
Collapse of mine........................              218
Miners poisoned.......................              214
Tin working appliances...... 290;   304; 318
Alum ........................ 564—508;   564—570
A solidified juice......................                  1
Elizabethan Charter ..................              283
In roasted pyrites.....................              350
In Sal ariiftciosus .....................              463
Latin and German terms............   220; 221
Papal monopoly ......................              670
Use in making nitric acid............   439 ; 460
Amalgam.
Parting the gold from ...............   298; 297
Amalgamation ...........................              297
Of gut 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
Antimony Sulphide............ 220;   428; 451
Parting gold and silver with 451 ;   451 ; 461
Parting gold from copper ..........              403
Parting silver and iron .............              544
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Antwerp, Scale of 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
A rbores dissectae (Lagging) ............              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 vents (see Native
Silver).
Argentum rude plumbei coloris (see
Silver Glance).
Argentum rude rubrum translucidum
(see Ruby Silver).
Argol .......................................   234; 220
As a flux........................ 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
Arsenic (see also Orpiment and
Realgar)...........................    Ill; 214
Arsenicum..................................              HI
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
also 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
Asphaltites (see Dead Sea).
Assay Balances (see Balances).
Assay Fluxes (see Fluxes).
Assay Furnaces ............... 224—228; 220
Crucible..................................    226—227
Muffle ........................... 224—228; 239
Assaying (see also Probierbüchlein)...
........................ 219; 219; 220; 354
Amalgamation.........................              243
Bismuth .................................              247
Copper....................................              244
Cupellation ..............................              240
Gold and silver 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
Atarnea.
Mines/near ..............................       26; 27
Athens.
Mining law ..............................                83
Sea flower and mines................                27
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