De Re Metallica-Index Page 663



	628 GENERAL INDEX.

	PAGE 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 metallicorum (see Bergmeister's Clerk). Scriba partium (see 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 Sesterce ...................................... 448 Sett.......................................... 77 Settling Pits............................. 316; 267 Shaft-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 Signator publions (see Notary). Silberweis (see Mica), Silex.......................................... 114; 118 Silver (see also Assaying, Liquation, Parting, Refining, etc)... 390; 364; 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; 606; 609; 512 Parting from gold (see Parting Gold and Silver). Parting from iron ..................... 544; 644 Precipitation from solution in copper bowl....................... 444 Refining.....................483—490; 466; 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 Stannutn, 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; 623 Slaves as Miners........................ 23; 83 In Greek mines ..................... 25; 25; 28 Slough (tunnel) .......................... 101 Sluices ............................ 319; 322—348	page Smallite.................................... 113 Smalt ....................................... 112 Smega ....................................... 404 Smelters................................... 78 Smelting (see also various metals)..... ..................... 379—390; 353—356 Assaying compared.................... 220 Building for............................. 355—361 Objects of ............................... 353 Smirgel (see Emery). Smiris (see Emery). Smyrna. Mines near .............................. 27 Snake-bites .............................. 31 Soda (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). Ancient silver-lead mines ........... 149; 392 Ancient silver mines of Carthage 27 Ancient tin mines..................... 411—412 Spalling Ore............................. 271—272 Spangen (see Trochitis). Spanschgrün (see Verdigris). Spartans. Gold and silver forbidden........... 9; 15 Interference with Athenian mines 27 Spat (see Heavy Spar). Spelter .................................... 409 Sphalerite................................ 113 Spiauter .................................... 409 *Spiesglas (see Stibium).* Spines of Fishes for Cupels........ 230 Spodos........................ 538; 394; 113; 114 Spuma argenti (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 Steinmach (see Porcelain Clay). Stemple (stull) ........................... 101 Stephanite................................. 109 Sternen Mine ........................... 92; 76 Steward (of High Peak mines)...... 77 St. George Mine (Schneeberg) ... 92; 74; 76 Stibium (see also Antimony and Antimony 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 Stockwerke *(see Vena cumulata).* Stoics. Views on wealth........................ 18 Stomoma .................................... 423 Stone Juice .............................. 46; 49