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 ; 539 ; 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; 115; 2
Compass . 57
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—376Lydia.
Mining law . 83
The King’s mines . 27
Lye . 558; 221; 233
Use in making fluxes . 236
Use in parting . 463
Magister Metallicorum (see Bergmeister).Magister Monetariorum (see Master ofthe Mint).
Magnes (see also Lodestone and Man-
ganese) . 584; 111; 115; 584
Magnet .. 247
Garlic . 39
Magnetis (see Mica).
Magnetite . Ill
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 . Ill; 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; 573
Indication of copper. 116
Melanterite . Ill
' Melos, Island of . 566
Menning (see Red-lead).
Mergel (see Marl).
Metals . 2 ; 44; 51
Advantages and uses. 19; 20
Necessity to man . XXV ; 12—13
Not responsible for evil passions... 15
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Metreta . 153
Mexico
Patio process . 297
Mica . 114
Middle Ages, Mining Law of . 84
Mills for Grinding Orf.. 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 ; 26
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—85
Right of Overlord, Landowner,
State and Miner . 82
Tunnels. 88—89
Mining Prefect. 26 ; 94; 78
Mining Rights (see Mining Law andMeer).
Mining Terms, Old English. 77 ; 101
Mining Tools . 149—153
Buckets for ore . 153—154
Buckets for water. 157
Trucks. 156
Wheelbarrows . 155
Minium . HI
Quicksilver from . 433
Red-lead . 232
Minium secundarium (see Red-lead).
Mispickel (MistpuckeV) . Ill
Misy (the mineral). 573; 111; 403
An indication of copper . 116
Use in parting gold and silver. 459
Mitlere und obere offenbruche (seeFurnace Accretions).
Modius . 617 ; 405
Moglitz.
Tin working . 318
Moil . 150
Molybdaena . 110; 221; 476 ; 400; 408
Term for lead carbonates . 400 ; 408
Molybdenite. 477
Monetarius (see Coiners).
Money, Assaying of . 251—252
Morano Glass Factories . 592
Moravia.
Cupellation . 483
Stamp-milling . 321
Washing gold ore . 324
Mordants . 569
Mortar-box. 279—280; 312; 319; 267