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Excerpt from A Rudimentary Treatise on the Metallurgy of Copper: Being a Concise Introduction to the Methods of Seeking, Mining, Dressing, Assaying, and Smelting the Ores of Copper and Manufacturing Its Alloys; Together With Historical and Statistical Notices of the MetalMuspratt's Chemistry applied to the Arts. Phillips' Manual of Metallurgy. Napier, in the London, Dublin, and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, vols. Iv., v. Clark, in Journal of Society of Arts. 1858. Hunt's Mining Records. Whitney's Metallic Wealth of the United States. Kerl's Handbuch der metallurgischen Huttenkunde. Zippe's Geschichte der Metalle. Von Cotta's Lehre von den Erzlagerstatten. Bodemann's Anleitung zur Probirkunst. Scheerer's Lehrbuch der Metallurgie. Plattner's Vorlesungen uber Allgemeine Huttenkunde. Plattner's Probirkunst mit dcm Lothrohre. Metallurgie du Cuivre par Rivet. Le Play, Procedes Metallurgiques dans le pays Galles. Moissenet, sur le procede Anglais pour les Essais de Cuivre.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.