Index

Page of 673 Text size:



	INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.

	PAGE Alum Making............................. 571 Amalgamation Mill.................... 299 Ampulla.................................... 442; 44· Argonauts ................................ 330 Assay Balances (see Balances). Assay Crucible ......................... 229 Assay Furnaces. Crucible ................................. 227 Muffle .................................... 223; 224 Balances................................... 265 Baling Water ........................... 199 Bars, for Furnace Work.......... 377; 389 Batea....................................... 157 Bellows. For blast furnaces 359 ; 365 ; 368 ; 370 ; 372 For mine ventilation......... 208; 209; 211 For tin furnace ........................ 419 Bismuth Smelting...... 434; 435; 430; 437 Bitumen Making........................ 582 Bitumen Spring ......................... 583 Bowls for Alluvial Washing *(see* also Batea) ........................ 336 Buckets. For hoisting ore ....................... 154 For hoisting water .........ι.......... 158 Buddle ........................301; 302; 314; 315 Building Plan for Refinery ...... 493 Building Flan for Smelter......... 361 Chain Pumps..................... 173; 174; 175 *Ckrysocolla* Making ..................... 585 Circular Fire (see Ring-Fire). Clay Washing ........................... 374; 375 Compass........................ 57; 59; 142; 147 Copper Mould for Assaying........ 250 Copper Refining........................ 534; 537 Copper Refining Furnace........... 532 Crane. For cupellation furnace.............. 479 For liquation cakes................... 514 Crowbars ................................. 152 Cupel ....................................... 229 Mould .................................... 231 Cupellation Furnace......... 468; 470; 474 At Freiberg............................. 481 In Poland................................ 482 Cutting Metal........................... 269 Descent into Mines................... 213 Dipping-pots 385; 387; 389; 393; 415; 417 Distillation (see Nitric Acid and Quicksilver). **Divining Rod............................. 40 Dogs Packing Ors ..................... 188 Drifts ...................................... 105 Drying Furnace for Liquation ... .............................. 525; 527; 528 Dust Chambers........................... 395; 417 Fans, Ventilation...... 204; 205; 206; 207 Fire-Buckets............................. 377 Fire Pump................................. 3T7 Fire-Setting.............................. 120 forehearth .............................. 357; 358; 383; 385; 387; 390; 417 Frames (or Sluices) for Washing Ore or Alluvial............... ......... 322—324; 326—329; 331—333** Furnaces. Assaying (see Assay Furnaces). Blast...... 357; 358; 373; 377; 383; 385; ...... 387; 390; 395; 419; 424; 508 Copper refining ........................ 537 Cupellation...... 468; 470; 474; 481; 482 Distilling sulphur ..................... 277 Enriching copper bottoms .......... 510 Glass-making........... 587; 588; 589; 591 Iron smelting........................... 422; 424 639	PAGE Furnaces. *Lead smelting (see also* Furnaces, blast)................................ 393 Liquation......... 517; 519; 525; 527; 528 Nitric acid making.................... 442 Nitric acid parting..................... 446 Parting precious metals with antimony ................................ 453 Ditto cementation..................... 455 Quicksilver distillation............... 427—432 Refining silver ................. 485; 486; 489 Roasting ................................. 276 Steel making............................ 425 Tin burning.............................. 349 Tin smelting ............................ 415 Gad.......................................... 150 Glass Making............................ 591 Furnaces........................ 587; 588; 589 Ground Sluicing 337 ; 340 ; 343 ; 346 ; 347 Hammers.................................... 161 With water-power..................... 422; 425 Heap Roasting .......................... 275; 278 Hearths. For bismuth smelting ............... 436; 437 For heating copper cakes ........... 504 For melting lead ..................... 393 For melting lead cakes............... 499 For refining tin ........................ 418 For roasting............................. 277 Hémicycle................................. 138 Hoe.......................................... 152** Intervcnium ................................ 50 Iron Fork for Metal.................. 387 Iron Hook for Assaying ............ 240 Iron Smelting ........................... 422; 424 Iron Tools................................. 150 Jigging Sieve............................. 311 Ladders.................................... 213 Ladle for Metal ....................... 383 Lead Mould for Assaying ......... 240 Liquation Cakes. Dried................................ 536 Liquation Cakes, Exhausted ...... 522 Liquation Furnaces .................. ............... 517; 519; 525; 527; 528 Lye Making .............................. 557 Matte Roasting ........................ 350; 351 *Meexs, Shape of......... 79; 80; 88; 87; 89* *Mills for Grinding Ore* ............ 294; 296 Muffle Furnaces........................ 223; 489 Muffles.................................... 228 Nitric Acid Making.................... 442 *Nitrum* Pits ............................... 559 Operculum ................................. 44c *Orbi ......................................... 142a Parting Precious Metals. With antimony ........................ 453 By cementation ....................... 455 With nitric acid ....................... · 446 With sulphur ........................... 449 Picks ................................ 152 Plummet Level. Standing ................................. 143 Suspended .............................. 146 Pumps. Chain ........................... 173; 174; 175 Duplex suction ............... 180; 185; 189 Rag and chain......... 191; 193; 194; 195 Suction... 177; 178; 179; 182; 188; 137**

Page of 673