Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining: Containing the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, with the Methods of Discovering and Working of Tin, Copper, and Lead Mines, and of Cleansing and Metalizing Their Products; Shewing Each Particular Process for Dressing, Assaying and Smelting of Ores. To which is Added, an Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of Miners

D. Bradford Barton Limited, 1778 - 331 pages

INTRODUCTION	i

С НА Р	ii

CHA P	iii

ME ETALS of all matter leaft fubject to viciflitude Page i Tin trade in Cornwall eſtabliſhed twentyfour centuries	viii

BOOK I	1

formation of Metals 3 Alchymical doctrine exploded	3

Matter is fubject to continual modifications progrefs decay	9

which they returnInftances foreign and domeſtick 15 Shal	16

rods c The rod will not be attracted by fubftances connected	124

Deſcription of the Bryle of the LodeShodes diſperſed from	130

Of Blowing or Smelting the TinOf the caftle or furnace	136

Of Bounds and the Manner of taking a Set or Grant	137

Proper place of a working Shaft or underlier Whym Shaft	144

Of the Adit or Level 145 Dimenſions of the Adit and Adit	166

General Obfervations on Mines and the Management of them	173

Με INING cafualOf the Purfer or Bookkeeper 173 Majority of ſhares have the managementA Mine called	179

A Summary of the Dreffing of Gold Silver and SemiMetals	21

accounted for 22 Of the lapideſcent petrifying and	23

cicatrixes of Granite or Moorftone 23 Inftance of braſs pins	29

Of the different kinds of Lodes in refpect of the Earth	33

Mundick to be uſed for preferving fhips bottoms from worms	35

furnaceBoraxSandiverKelpTheir properties in fufing	43

formed at the creation as we now find them 42 43 Of Cal	44

naris Metals radical characters of Specifick weight	51

Its volatilityFactitious CinnabarNo Quick	57

when diſcovered of fhort continuance 58 Lead anciently	63

воок	71

Of the Strata of the Earth and the Fiffures in which Metals	72

JORNISH Strata of different denfities and not ſtratified by the laws of gravity but by thofe of affinity 72	80

Mo OST Lodes are named from the Stone or Mineral they generally abound withVery different near the furface	87

tender brown 88 A dry pale Goffan a poor Tin Goffan	97

ΙΟΙ	100

ftrings or ſmall veins of LodesLodes fqueezed ſmall in hard	106

brokenAbove 2000000 tons of Lode and Strata broken	192

CHAP	201

Ο N the infalubrity of Mineral effluvia and their production of epidemick fevers 195 196 197 Of Damps 198	204

Of Levelling what how uſeful c	213

The Method of Sampling and Vanning of Tinftuff and of	215

and its value 216 217 Of Tin in the Bal 218 Of ftamp	222

Pitworks and ſkimpings 223 Of the crop and rough Tin	231

T HE utenfils for dreffing viz griddle ftrêke c 234 235 Dreffing by a large fieve or griddleby Picking	238

ous and will bear waterSemiMetals and Mineral falts dreffed	247

procefs explained 252 Corniſh chinaware crucibles recom	253

They muſt be guardedOf Cuppellation 254 Of the making	259

Of Smelting of Copper Ores in the great Furnaces called	271

and repeated fmeltings therein 274 Of the Metal calciner	279

the SmeltingHouſe	286

L	288

Of felling or bartering black Tin for whiteForm of a Tin bill	292

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Titre	Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining: Containing the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, with the Methods of Discovering and Working of Tin, Copper, and Lead Mines, and of Cleansing and Metalizing Their Products; Shewing Each Particular ...
Auteur	William Pryce
Édition	réimprimée
Éditeur	D. Bradford Barton Limited, 1778
Original provenant de	Université d'État de l'Ohio
Numérisé	30 juin 2016
ISBN	0851530842, 9780851530840
Longueur	331 pages

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