1
Proportion of lead in rich silver copper
509
LIQUATION CAKES, EXHAUSTED
521—526; 406; 492;
520
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—376
LYDIA.
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 of the
Mint).
Magnes (see also Lodestone and Man-ganese)
584; 111; 115; 584
MAGNET
247
Garlic
39
Magnetis (see Mica).
MAGNETITE
111
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
111; 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.
Duraps from mines
312
Melanteria
117; 112; 573
Indication of copper
116
MELANTERITE
111
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
Metreta
153
MEXICO
Patio process
297
MICA
114
MIDDLE AGES, MINING LAW OF
84
MILLS FOR GRINDING ORE
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
111
Quicksilver from
433
Red-lead
232
Minium secundarium
(see
Red-lead).
MISPICKEL (Mistpuckel)
111
Misy (the
mineral)
573; 111; 403
An indication of copper
116
Use in parting gold and silver
459
Mitlere und obere offenbrüche (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