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GENERAL INDEX.
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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 (seeBergmeister’s Clerk).
Scriba partium (see Share Clerk).
Scum of Lead from CupellationScythians.
Wealth condemned.
Seams in the Rocks. 72 ;
Indications of ore . 67 ;
Sea-Water, Salt from .
Sesletce .
Sett.
Settling Pits. 316;
Shaft-houses.
Shafts . 102—107;
Surveys of . 129
Venae cumulatae .
Shakes.
Share Clerk. 97
Share in Mines (see Companies,
Mining).
Shears for Cutting Native Silver
Shift .
Shoes (stamp). 285—
Shovellers . 153;
Sideritis (see Lodestone).
Siegelstein (see Lodestone).
Sieves.
For charcoal . 375
For crushed ore. 287—293 ; 341
Sifting Ore . 287—293
Signator publicus (see Notary).
Silberweis (see Mica).
Silex . 114; 118
Silver (see also Assaying, Liquation,
Parting, Refining, etc)... 390; 354; 109
Amalgamation. 297 ; 300
Assaying . 248—251
Cupellation . 464—483; 241
“ Drying ” copper residues from
liquation .
Enrichment in copper bottoms ... 510;
Exhausted liquation cakes .
Indicated by bismuth, etc.
Liquation. 505—507; 606; 509;
Parting from gold (see Parting Goldand Silver).
Parting from iron . 544 ;
Precipitation from solution in
copper bowl. 444
Refining.483—490; 465; 484
Smelting of ores.
475
9;
15
; 43 ;
47
67;
107
545—
546
448
77
316;
267
102
122—
124
129-
135
128
101
; 93;
78
269
99;
; 92
286;
267
169;
78
629
510
524
116
512
544
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 Stannum, 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 ; 523
Slaves as Miners. 23; 83
In Greek mines . 25 ; 25 ; 28
Slough (tunnel) . 101
Sluices . 319; 322—348
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Smallite. 113
Smalt . 112
Smega . 404
Smelters. 78
Smelting (see also various metals) .
. 379—390; 353—355
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 Trachitis).
Spanschgrun (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 (seePlummet Level).
Stannaries. 85
Stannum . 473; 2; 384; 492
Steel. 423—426; 422—423; 354
Steiger . 77
Steinmack (see Porcelain Clay).
Stemple (stull) . 101
Stephanite. 109
Sternen Mine . 92 ; 75
Steward (of High Peak mines) . 77
St. George Mine (Schneeberg) ... 92; 74; 75
Stibium (see also Antimony and Anti-mony 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