Do you need ancient or modern? You might get help from Doe Run
Website (http://www.doerun.com/) on the modern ways of doing it
Dave
On Oct 23, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Dave Linton wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2006, at 10:27, Curator wrote:
>> Can some kind individual point in me in the direction of a
>> description of, or a guide to, the processing and smelting of
>> galena? Thanks in an anticipation.
>
> Not the most recent description, but one that comes readily to mind
> and a good starting point for all sorts of information about mining:
>
> Agricola, _De Re Metalica_ (translated by Herbert Clark Hoover &
> Lou Henry Hoover) New York: Dover Publications, 1950, ISBN 0486600068
>
> A more recent source and available on-line is the 1911 Encyclopedia
> Britanica http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Lead
>
> Dave
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