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GENERAL INDEX.		625

Liquation Cakes. page Proportion of lead in rich silver copper.............................. 509 Liquation Cakes, Exhausted ...... ............... 521—526; 406; 492; 620 Liquation Slags ............... 509; 492; 541 Furnaces for...............,............ 507 Treatment of ........................... 541 Liquation Thorns 522 ; 539 ; 492 ; 639 ; 540 From cupellation ...................... 543; 543 From " drying " copper residues... 529 Litharge (see also Cupellation)....... 475; 232—238; 466; 476; 110; 222 Use in reducing silver nitrate...... 447 Use in smelting ............... 379; 398; 400 Lithargyrum (see Litharge). Lodestone.................. 115; 111; 116; 2 Compass ................................. 67 Los Pozos de Anibal ..................... 42 Lotores (see Washers). Lusitania. Gold alluvial ........................... 347 Sluices for gold washing ............ 325 Tin smelting ............................ 419 Lute......................................... 1 Preparation of for furnace linings 375—376 Lydia. Mining law .............................. 83 The lung's mines ..................... 27 Lye ................................. 558; 221; 233 Use in making fluxes................. 236 Use in parting ......................... 463 Magister Melallicorum (see Bergmeister). Magister Monetariorum (see Master of the Mint). Magnes (see also Lodestone and Manganese)............ 584; 111; 115; 584 Magnet .................................... 247 Garlic .................................... 39 Magnetis (see Mica). Magnetite................................. 111 Malachite................................. 109; 221 Maladies of Miners................... 214-—217 Maltha..................................... 581 Manager (see Mine Manager). Manganese................................. 586; 354 Mannsfeld Copper Slates........... ............... 126—127; 279; 127; 273 Map-making............................... 129 Marble ............................... 115; 2; 114 Marcasite........................ 1ll; 112; 409 Marga (see Marl). Marienberg........................... XXXI; VI. Marl......................................... 114 Marmelstein (see Marble). Marmor (see Marble). Marmor alabastrites (see Alabaster). Marmor glarea............................. 114 Massicot (see also Lead Ochre) 110 ; 221 ; 232 Master of the Horse.................. 81 Master of the Mint .................. 95; 78 Matte (see Cakes of Melted Pyrites). Matte Smelting ........................ 404—407 Measure (unit of mining area) ........ 78; 78 Measures.................. 616—617; 78; 550 Medicine. Knowledge necessary for miners ... 3 Medulla saxorum (see Porcelain Clay). Meer ........................................ 77—89 Boundary stones ...................... 87 On vena cumulata ..................... 87 On vena dilatata ....................... 86 Meissen. Dumps from mines.................... 312 Melanteria ........................ 117; 112; 673 Indication of copper.................. 116 Melanterite.............................. 111 Melos, Island of ....................... 666 Menning (see Red-lead). Mergel (see Marl). Metals ................................. 2; 44; 61 Advantages and uses.................. 19; 20 Necessity to man ............... XXV; 12—13 Not responsible for evil passions... 15	PAGE Metreta ...................................... 168 Mexico Patio process ........................... 297 Mica ......................................... 114 Middle Ages, Mining Law of ...... 84 Mills for Grinding Ore...... 294—299; 280 Mimes(see also Gnomes)................. 217 Mine Captain ............................ 26; 77 Mine Manager............... 97; 98; 77; 78 Mineral Kingdom, Agricola's Divisions of ..................... 1 Minerals.............. ...... 594; 108; 48; 51 Compound .............................. 2; 51 Mixed .................................... 2; 51 Miners............................. 1—4; 25; 78 Duties and punishments ............ 100; 22 Law (see Mining Law). Litigation among ..................... 21 Slaves as................................. 23 Mines. Abandonment of ...................... 217 Conditions desirable .................. 30—33 Investments in ........................ 26—29 Management of ........................ 25; 28 Names of ................................ 42 Mines Royal, Company of............ 283 Mining (see also Sett, Lease, Claim, Meer, etc.). Criticisms of ............................ 4—12 Harmless and honourable ...... 14; 20; 23 Methods of breaking ore ............ 117—118 Stoping................................... 125 Mining Clerk ............... 93; 95; 96; 78 Mining Companies (see Companies, Mining). Mining Foreman..................... 98—99; 78 Frauds by .............................. 21—22 Mining Law .............................. 82—86 Boundary stones ...................... 87 Drainage requirements............... 92—93 England ................................. 84—86 Europe ................................... 84 Forfeiture of title ..................... 92—93 France.................................... 84 Greek and Roman .................... 83 Middle Ages ............................ 84—86 Right of Overlord, Landowner, State and Miner .................. 82 Tunnels................................... 88—89 Mining Prefect..................... 28; 94; 78 Mining Rights (see Mining Law and Meer). Mining Terms, Old English......... 77; 101 Mining Tools ............................ 149—163 Buckets for ore ........................ 153—154 Buckets for water..................... 157 Trucks.................................... 156 Wheelbarrows .......................... 155 Minium ..................................... 111 Quicksilver from....................... 433 Red-lead ................................. 232 Minium secundarium (see Red-lead). Mispickel (Mistpuckel) ................. 111 Misy (the mineral)............... 573; 111; 403 An indication of copper ............. 118 Use in parting gold and silver....... 469 *Mitlere und obere offenbräche (see* Furnace Accretions). Modius ...................................... 617; 405 MOGLITZ. Tin working ............................ 318 Moil ......................................... 160 Molybdaena......... 110; 221; 476; 400; 408 Term for lead carbonates ........... 400; 408 Molybdenite................................ 477 Monetarius (set Coiners). Money, Assaying of................... 251—252 Morano Glass Factories ............ 592 Moravia. Cupellation .............................. 483 Stamp-milling .......................... 821 Washing gold ore ..................... 824 Mordants ................................. 569 Mortar-box...... 279—280; 312; 319; 267