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

by Georg Agricola

• Matte Roasting, [350]; [351]
• Meers, Shape of, [79]; [80]; [86]; [87]; [89]
• Mills for Grinding Ore, [294]; [296]
• Muffle Furnaces, [223]; [489]
• Muffles, [228]

• Nitric Acid Making, [442]
• Nitrum Pits, [559]

• Operculum, [446]
• Orbis, [142A]

• Parting Precious Metals.
  • With antimony, [453]
  • By cementation, [455]
  • With nitric acid, [446]
  • With sulphur, [449]
• Picks, [152]
• Plummet level.
  • Standing, [143]
  • Suspended, [146]
• Pumps.
  • Chain, [173]; [174]; [175]
  • Duplex suction, [180]; [185]; [189]
  • Rag and chain, [191]; [193]; [194]; [195]
  • Suction, [177]; [178]; [179]; [182]; [183]; [187]

• Quicksilver Distillation, [427]; [429]; [430]; [431]; [432]

• Rag and Chain Pumps, [191]; [193]; [194]; [195]; [197]
• Rammers for Fire-Clay, [377]; [383]
• Ring-Fire, for Parting with Sulphur, [449]
• Roasting (see also [Heap] and [Stall Roasting]), [278]; [350]; [351]; [274]; [275]; [276]
• Rosette Copper Making, [537]

• Salt.
  • Boiling, [549]; [554]; [555]
  • Caldron, [551]; [553]
  • Evaporated on faggots, [556]
  • Pans, [547]
  • Wells, [549]
• Saltpetre Making, [563]
• Saxon Lead Furnace, [393]
• Scorifier, [229]
• Seams in the Rocks, [54]; [55]; [56]; [60]; [72]
• Shafts.
  • Inclined, [104]
  • Timbering, [123]
  • Vertical, [103]; [105]
• Shears for Cutting Metal, [269]
• Shield for Muffle Furnace, [241]
• Sifting Ore, [287]; [288]; [289]; [291]; [292]; [293]; [311]; [342]
• Silver.
  • Cakes, Cleansing of, [476]; [488]
  • Refining, [484]; [485]; [486]; [489]
• Sleigh for Ore, [168]
• Sluicing Tin, [337]; [338]; [340]; [343]
• Smelter, Plan of Building, [361]
• Soda Making, [561]
• Sorting Ore, [268]; [270]
• Spalling Ore, [270]; [271]; [272]
• Stall Roasting.
  • Matte, [350]; [351]
  • Ore, [274]; [276]
• Stamp-mill, [284]; [286]; [287]; [299]; [313]; [320]; [321]; [373]
  • For breaking copper cakes, [501]
• Stamps, [285]
• Steel Furnace, [425]
• Strake, [302]; [303]; [305]; [306]; [307]; [341]; [342]; [345]
  • Canvas, [308]; [309]; [317]; [321]; [329]
• Streaming for Tin, [318]
• Stringers.
  • Associated, [71]
  • Fibra dilatata, [71]
  • Fibra incumbens, [71]
  • Oblique, [71]
  • Transverse, [71]
• Surveying.
  • Rods, [138A]
  • Shafts and Tunnels, [131]
  • Triangles, [133]; [134]; [135]; [136]; [137]; [139]; [140]
• Suction Pumps (see [Pumps]).
• Sulphur Making, [579]; [581]

• Tap-holes in Furnaces, [389]
• Tapping-bar, [383]; [385]
• "Tests" for Refining Silver, [484]; [485]
• Timbering.
  • Shafts, [123]
  • Tunnels, [125]
• Tin.
  • Bars, [415]
  • Burning, [349]
  • Refining, [418]
  • Smelting, [415]; [419]
• Touch-needles, [255]
• Trays for Washing Alluvial, [334]
• Tread Whim, [163]
• Trough, [159]
  • For washing alluvial, [335]; [348]
• Trucks, [156]
• Tunnels, [103]; [104]; [105]; [120]
  • Timbering, [125]

• Veins.
  • Barren, [73]
  • Beginning of, [69]
  • Cavernous, [73]
  • Curved, [61]
  • End of, [69]
  • Head of, [69]
  • Horizontal, [61]
  • Intersections of, [64]; [65]; [66]; [67]; [68]
  • Solid, [73]
  • Strike of, [62]; [63]
• Vena cumulata, [49]; [70]
• Vena dilatata, [45]; [50]; [54]; [60]; [61]; [68]; [69]
• Vena profunda, [45]; [50]; [53]; [61]; [62]; [63]; [64]; [68]
• Ventilating with Damp Cloth (see also [Bellows], [Fans], and [Windsails]), [212]
• Vitriol Making, [567]; [574]; [575]; [576]; [577]

• Wagons, for Hauling Ore, [170]
• Washing Ore (see [Sifting Ore]).
• Water Tanks, under Furnaces, [358]
• Wedges, [150]
• Weights, for Assay Balances, [262]
• Westphalian Lead Smelting, [393]
• Wheelbarrows, [155]
• Whims.
  • Horse, [165]; [167]
  • Tread, [163]
• Windlasses, [161]; [162]; [171]
• Winds, Direction of, [59]
• Windsails for Ventilation, [201]; [202]; [203]