Written by Cornelius Beringer

A Textbook of Assaying

The Text-book now offered to the public has been prepared to meet the existing want of a practical "handy book" for the Assayer. To mining men the word "assaying" conveys a sufficiently clear meaning, but it is difficult to define. Some writers limit it to the determination of silver and gold, and others imagine that it has only to do with "furnace..