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GENERAL INDEX.		629

Stones, page Agiicola's view of .................. 2; 46; 49 Various orders of fusibility ......... 380 " Stones which Easily Melt " (see also Quartz)....................... 380; 222 Asaflux........................ 233; 236; 233 In making nitric acid ................ 440 In smelting..................... 379; 380; 390 Smelting of.............................. 401 Stool (of a drift) ........................ 101 Stope ....................................... 126 Stoping .................................... 125 Venae cumulatae ....................... 128 Venae dilatatae ......................... 126; 127 Strare..................... 303—310; 267; 282 Canvas ......... 307—310; 314; 316; 267 Egyptians................................ 280 Greeks.................................... 281 Short ........................... 306—307; 267 Washing tin concentrates ........... 341—343 Strata ...................................... 126 Streaming ................................. 316—318 Stringers........................ 70; 43; 47; 70 Indication of ore....................... 106 Mining method ........................ 128 Styria ...................................... 388 Subterranean Heat .................. 46; 695 Suction Pumps........................... 175—188 Sulphides ................................. 267; 355 Sulphur .................. 578—581; 679; 222 Colour of fumes........................ 235 Harmful to metals .................... 273 In assaying.............................. 235—238 Jn parting gold from copper........ 463; 462 In parting gold from silver......... ........................ 448—451; 448; 461 In smelting gold dust ................ 396 Roasted from ores .................... 273; 276 Solidified juice.......................... 1 Sulphur " not exposed to the Fire." .............................. 458; 463; 679 Surveyor's Field ............ 137; 144; 142 Surveying ...................... 128—148; 129 Necessary for miners ................. 4 Rod ....................................... 137—138 Suspended Plummet Level (see Plummet Level). Swiss Compass ........................... 145; 137 Swiss Surveyors........................ 145 Symposium ................................. 91 Tap-hole.................................... 378; 386 Tappets ........................... 282; 319; 267 Tapping-bar .............................. 381 Tarshish, Tin Trade .................. 412 Tartar (Cream of)....................... 220; 234 Tectum (Hangingwall) .................. 101 Terra sigillata (see Lemnian Earth). " Tests ", Refining Silver in...... ........................ 483—490; 465; 484 Thaler ....................................... 92 Thasos, Mines of .................. 23; 95; 23 Theamedes .................................. 116 Theodosian Code. Mines...................................... 84 Thorns (see Liquation Thorns). Thuringia. Roasting pyrites....................... 276 Sluices of gold washing............... 327 Tigna (Wall plate) ...................... 101 Timbering. Of ladderways and shafts... 122 ; 123 ; 124 Of stopes ................................ 126 Of tunnels and drifts................. 124—125 Tin........................... 411—413; 354; 110 Alluvial mining ........................ 336-—340 Assaying ore ........................... 246 Assaying for silver .................... 251 Colour of fumes........................ 235 Concentrates............ 340—342; 348—349 Cornish treatment..................... 282 Refining ................................. 418—419 Smelting ................................. 411—420 Stamp-milling .......................... 312—317 Streaming .............................. 316—318	PAGE Tin. Washing ...........................298; 302; 304 Tincar or Τ incoi (see Borax). Tithe Gatherer............... 81; 95; 98; 78 Tithe on Metals........................ 81; 82 Toden Kopff................................ 235 Tofstein (see Tophus). Tolfa, La (see La Tolfa). Tools ....................................... 149—153 Topfslein (see Tophus). Tophus .............................205, 114- 222 As a flux .................... 233; 237; 390 Tortures. With metals............................. 11 Without metals ........................ 17 Touch-needles................... 253—260; 283 Touchstone 252—253; 252; 364; 468; 222 Mineral.................................... 114 Uses.............................. 243; 248; 447 Trade-routes. Salt-deposits influence on ........... 646 Transport of Ore...................... 168—169 Trent, Bishop of. Charter (1185) .......................... 84 Triangles in Surveying.............. 129—137 Tripoli...................................... 115 Trochitis .................................... 115; 115 Trolley........................... 480; 500; 514 Troy. Lead found in........................... 391 Troy Weights .................. 616; 617; 242 Trucks ....................................... 166 Tunnels.................................... 102; 101 Law ....................................... 88—93 Surveys of .............................. 130—141 Timbering................................ 124 Turin Papyrus ......................... 129; 399 Turn (winze) .............................. 101 Tuteneque.................................... 409 Tuttanego ................................... 409 Tutty ....................................... 394 Twitches of the Vein................. 101 Twyer ...................................... 376 Tye .......................................... 267 Type. Stibium used for........................ 2; 429 Tyrants. Inimical to miners ................... 32 Tyrolese. Smelting ................................. 388; 404 Ulcers...................................... 214; 31 Oncia (length) ...................... 78; 616; 78 Uncia (weight) ........................... 616; 242 Undercurrents (see Sluices). United States. Apex law ................................ 82 Vectiarii (see Windlass Men). Veins............... 43; 64—69; 106—107; 47 Barren.................................... 72; 107 Direction of.............................. 54—58 Drusy .............................. 72; 73; 107 Hardness variable..................... 117 Indications .............................. 35—38 Intersections of...... 65; 66; 67; 106; 107 Vena. Use of term.............................. 43; 47 Vena cumulata............ 46; 49; 70; 43; 47 Mining method ........................ 128 Mining rights ........................... 87 Vena dilatala 41 ; 45 ; 53 ; 60—61 ; 43 ; 47 Junctions with vena profunda...... 67 ; 68 Mining method ........................ 126—127 Mining rights ........................... 83—86 Washing lead ore from ............. 347 Vena profunda............................. 44 ; 51 ; 60 ; 62 ; 63 ; 68 ; 69 ; 43 ; 47 Cross veins.............................. 65 Functions..................... 65; 66; 67; 68 Mining rights ........................... 79—83 Venetian Glass ........................ 222 Factories................................. 592 In assaying..................... 238; 245; 246

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