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• A discovery of subterraneal treasure : viz. of all manner of mines and minerals, from the gold to the coal, with plain directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries
  by: Plattes, Gabriel
  Published: (1653)
• A discovery of subterraneall treasure : viz. of all manner of mines and mineralls, from the gold to the coale, with plaine directions and ruled for the finding of them in all kingdomes and countries
  by: Plattes, Gabriel
  Published: (1639)
• A discovery of subterranean treasure : containing useful explorations, concerning all manner of mines and minerals, from the gold to the coal; with plain directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries. In which the art of melting, refining, and assaying of them is plainly declared ... Whereunto is added a real experiment whereby every ignorant man may presently try whether any piece of gold that shall come to his hands be true or counterfeit ... Also a perfect way to try what colour any berry, leaf, flower, stalk, root, fruit, seed, bark or wood will give: with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stain nor fade like ordinary colours. Very necessary for every one to know, whether he be a traveller by land or by sea, in what country, dominion, or plantation soever he shall either sojourn or inhabit. By Mr. Gabriel Plattes
  by: Plattes, Gabriel
  Published: (1784)
• A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines, and minerals : Containing, I. Curious Observations on Mines and the several Minerals produced; with plain Directions and Rules for finding them in all Countries. II. The Art of Melting, Refining and Assaying all Sorts of Metals, whereby any Person at a small Charge may try the Value of such Oars as shall be found, either by Rule or Accid en. With Instructions for Sorting of Oar. III. Real Experiments, to try whether any Piece offer'd for Gold be true or counterfeit, what Colour any Berry, Leaf, Flower, Stalk, Root, Fruit, Seed, Bark or Wood will give. With an infallible Method of preparing Colours, which shall neither stain nor fade like Ordinary Colours. IV. The Common Way of Refining Silver by Quicksilver. With some new Rules added for the better Performance. V. An Invaluable Discovery of all Sorts of Mines from Gold to Coal. Also, The Compleat Miner, with the Liberties, Laws and Customs of the Lead Mines within the Wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire, in Fifty Nine Articles, being all that were ever made. VI. The Art of Dyalling, or Levelling Grooves, greatly desired by all Miners: Being a Subject never wrote on before, with an Explanation of the Miners Terms of Art, and several other curious Particulars. Being, a translation from the learned Albaro Alonso Barba, Director of the Mines at Potosi, in the Spanish West Indies, and the Observations of several Ingenuous Persons of our own Country, sounded on many Years Experience
  by: Barba, Alvaro Alonso
  Published: (1740)
• Essays concerning iron and steel : the first, containing observations on American sand-iron: the second, observations, founded on experiments, on common iron-ore, with the Method of reducing it first into Pig or Sow-Metal, and then into Bar-Iron; on the Sort of Iron proper to be converted into good Steel, and the Method of refining that Bar-Steel by Fusion, so as to render it fit for the more curious Purposes: With an Account of Mr. Reaumur's Method of softening Cast-Iron; and an Appendix, Discovering a more perfect Method of Charring Pit-Coal, so as to render it a proper Succedaneum for charred Wood-Coal. By Henry Horne
  by: Horne, Henry
  Published: (1773)