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[A man sweeping pine needles that have fallen from a tree near a stone shrine]
gold washing from "Practical Gold-Mining: a comprehensive treatise on ... gold-bearing gravels, rocks and ores, and the methods by which the gold is extracted ... With ... plates, etc. [With a bibliography.]"
gold minining from "Practical Gold-Mining: a comprehensive treatise on ... gold-bearing gravels, rocks and ores, and the methods by which the gold is extracted ... With ... plates, etc. [With a bibliography.]"
Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a Southern tin smelter. The tin extracted from the ore has already been drawn off into floats for further refining. The slag is then run off to the right into ladles which will carry it to recooking operations. The slag is reintroduced to the process for further recovery of the metal
Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a Southern tin smelter. The tin extracted from the ore has already been drawn off into floats for further refining. The slag is then run off to the right into ladles which will carry it to recooking operations. The slag is reintroduced to the process for further recovery of the metal
Image taken from page 372 of 'Practical Gold-Mining: a comprehensive treatise on ... gold-bearing gravels, rocks and ores, and the methods by which the gold is extracted ... With ... plates, etc. [With a bibliography.]'
Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a Southern tin smelter. The tin extracted from the ore has already been drawn off into floats for further refining. The slag is then run off to the right into ladles which will carry it to recooking operations. The slag is reintroduced to the process for further recovery of the metal
technology from "Practical Gold-Mining: a comprehensive treatise on ... gold-bearing gravels, rocks and ores, and the methods by which the gold is extracted ... With ... plates, etc. [With a bibliography.]"
Agriculture, etc. Primitive methods of rubbing and grinding wheat. Excavated stone mortar and bowls
[Men chopping wood, damming stream, and washing ore demonstrate a sluicing method for obtaining stones from which tin is made]
Summary
Illus. and text in: De re metallica / Georg Agricola. Basileae : [Apud H. Frobenium et N. Episcopium], 1556, p. 270.
Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 201.
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1556
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Date
01/01/1556
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