De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556

by Georg Agricola

• Alum Making, [571]
• Amalgamation Mill, [299]
• Ampulla, [442]; [446]
• Argonauts, [330]
• Assay Balances (see [Balances]).
• Assay Crucible, [229]
• Assay Furnaces.
  • Crucible, [227]
  • Muffle, [223]; [224]

• Balances, [265]
• Baling Water, [199]
• Bars, for Furnace Work, [377]; [389]
• Batea, [157]
• Bellows.
  • For blast furnaces, [359]; [365]; [368]; [370]; [372]
  • For mine ventilation, [208]; [209]; [211]
  • For tin furnace, [419]
• Bismuth Smelting, [434]; [435]; [436]; [437]
• Bitumen Making, [582]
• Bitumen Spring, [583]
• Bowls for Alluvial Washing (see also [Batea]), [336]
• Buckets.
  • For hoisting ore, [154]
  • For hoisting water, [158]
• Buddle, [301]; [302]; [314]; [315]
• Building Plan for Refinery, [493]
• Building Plan for Smelter, [361]

• Chain Pumps, [173]; [174]; [175]
• Chrysocolla Making, [585]
• Circular Fire (see [Ring-Fire]).
• Clay Washing, [374]; [375]
• Compass, [57]; [59]; [142]; [147]
• Copper Mould for Assaying, [250]
• Copper Refining, [534]; [537]
• Copper Refining Furnace, [532]
• Crane.
  • For cupellation furnace, [479]
  • For liquation cakes, [514]
• Crowbars, [152]
• Cupel, [229]
  • Mould, [231]
• Cupellation Furnace, [468]; [470]; [474]
  • At Freiberg, [481]
  • In Poland, [482]
• Cutting Metal, [269]

• Descent into Mines, [213]
• Dipping-pots, [385]; [387]; [389]; [393]; [415]; [417]
• Distillation (see [Nitric Acid] and [Quicksilver]).
• Divining Rod, [40]
• Dogs Packing Ore, [168]
• Drifts, [105]
• Drying Furnace for Liquation, [525]; [527]; [528]
• Dust Chambers, [395]; [417]

• Fans, Ventilation, [204]; [205]; [206]; [207]
• Fire-Buckets, [377]
• Fire Pump, [377]
• Fire-Setting, [120]
• Forehearth, [357]; [358]; [383]; [385]; [387]; [389]; [417]
• Frames (or Sluices) for Washing Ore or Alluvial, [322]-[324]; [326]-[329]; [331]-[333]
• Furnaces.
  • Assaying (see [Assay Furnaces]).
  • Blast, [357]; [358]; [373]; [377]; [383]; [385]; [387]; [389]; [395]; [419]; [424]; [508]
  • Copper refining, [537]
  • Cupellation, [468]; [470]; [474]; [481]; [482]
  • Distilling sulphur, [277]
  • Enriching copper bottoms, [510]
  • Glass-making, [587]; [588]; [589]; [591]
  • Iron smelting, [422]; [424]
  • Lead smelting (see also [Furnaces, blast]), [393]
  • Liquation, [517]; [519]; [525]; [527]; [528]
  • Nitric acid making, [442]
  • Nitric acid parting, [446]
  • Parting precious metals with antimony, [453]
  • Ditto cementation, [455]
  • Quicksilver distillation, [427]-[432]
  • Refining silver, [485]; [486]; [489]
  • Roasting, [276]
  • Steel making, [425]
  • Tin burning, [349]
  • Tin smelting, [415]

• Gad, [150]
• Glass Making, [591]
  • Furnaces, [587]; [588]; [589]
• Ground Sluicing, [337]; [340]; [343]; [346]; [347]

• Hammers, [151]
  • With water-power, [422]; [425]
• Heap Roasting, [275]; [278]
• Hearths.
  • For bismuth smelting, [436]; [437]
  • For heating copper cakes, [504]
  • For melting lead, [393]
  • For melting lead cakes, [499]
  • For refining tin, [418]
  • For roasting, [277]
• Hemicycle, [138]
• Hoe, [152]

• Intervenium, [50]
• Iron Fork for Metal, [387]
• Iron Hook for Assaying, [240]
• Iron Smelting, [422]; [424]
• Iron Tools, [150]

• Jigging Sieve, [311]

• Ladders, [213]
• Ladle for Metal, [383]
• Lead Mould for Assaying, [240]
• Liquation Cakes.
  • Dried, [530]
• Liquation Cakes, Exhausted, [522]
• Liquation Furnaces, [517]; [519]; [525]; [527]; [528]
• Lye Making, [557]