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	622 GENERAL INDEX.

	PAGE Derbyshire (see also High Peak). Early ore washing..................... 281 Introduction jigging sieve........... 283 Mininglaw ........................... 77; 84—85 Descent into Mines .................. 212 Devon. Mininglaw .............................. 85 DlLLEUGHER ............................... 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 also 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 .................. 1; 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 Mininglaw .............................. 83 Silver and lead metallurgy ......... 390 Tin ........................................ 411; 412 Egyptian Screw (see Archimedes, Screw of). Eifel. Spalling ore ............................. 272 Eisenertz (see Ironstone). Eisenglantz (see Ironstone). Eisleben, 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 Asbestos) ......... 114; 274 Feldspar .................................. 114	PAGE Ferrugo (see Iron-rust). Ferrum purum (see Native Iron). Fibres (see Stringers). Fineness, Scales of ............... 253; 617 Fire gritting 118 —120 ; 118—119 Firstum Mines (see Fürst). Fissure Vein (see Vena profunda) Flame. Determination of metal by ......... 235 Determination of required flux by 235 Flint, as a Flux........................ 380 Float, from Veins ..................... 37 Flookan.................................... 101 Flue-dust................................. 394—398 Fluorés (see Fluorspar). Fluorspar........................ 115; 380; 381 Indication of ore....................... 118 Flüsse (see Fluorspar). Fluxes (see also Argol, Saltpetre, Limestone, Stones which easily melt, etc.) .......................... ...... 232—239; 232; 237; 380; 221 Basic...................................... 237 De-sulphurizing ........................ 236; 237 For smelting............ 379; 380; 388; 390 Reducing ................................ 238; 237 Stock fluxes for assaying............ 238 Sulphurizing............................. 238; 237 FooTWALL ................................. 88; 117 Forehearth ...... 358; 375—378; 388; 355 For tin furnaces ....................... 411; 413 Foreman (see Mining Foreman). Forest-Fires ............................. 38; 36 Forest of Dean......................... 84 Forest of Mendip...................... 84 Format ...................................... 101 Fossa Intens* (see also* Drifts)............ 101 Fossa latens transversa (see also Crosscuts) ......................... 101 Fossores (see Miners). Founders'Hoards...................... 355; 402 Fractional Meers ..................... 80 France. Mediaeval mining law ................ 84 Free Mining Cities .................... 84 Freiberg................................... XXXI. Age of the mines...................... 5 Bergmeister ............................ 95 Division of shares .................. 81; 90; 91 First discovery of veins.............. 35; 36 Flooding of mines..................... 218 Method of cupellation ............... 482 Fullers'Earth.......................... - 115 Fumes. From heated ore ...................... 235 Poisonous................................ 215—218 Fundamentum (see also Footwall) ... 101 Fundgrube (see also Meer)............... 77 Furnaces 374—378; 388; 388; 355; 492 Assaying (see Assay Furnaces). Bismuth smelting ..................... 433—437 Burning tin concentrates............ 349 Cementation............................. 455 Copper smelting ....................... 401—408 Cupellation ............... 487—488; 482—483 " Drying " liquated copper......... 522—528 Enriching copper bottoms........... 510 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 antimony ................................ 452—453 Quicksilver distillation............... 428—432 Refining copper........................ 531—533 Refining silver ......................... 483; 489 Refining tin.............................. 418 Roasting................................. 278—277 Smelting liquation slags............. 507 Tin smelting .................. 411—413; 419

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