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In the press. dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall. [electronic resource] : Mineralogia cornubiensis; or, A general treatise upon minerals, mines, and mining; wherein the theory and natural history of strata, fissures, and lodes, as to their origin, matter formation, direction, inclination, interruption, elevation, and depression, are rationally accounted for. With the methods at large of discovering, working, and drawing the water of tin, copper, and lead mines. Together with the cleansing and metalizing their products; shewing each particular process for digging, raising, dressing, assaying, and smelting of ores. To which will be added, an etymological explanation of the terms and idioms of tinners: as well as those which are used among the lead mines and collieries of Great-Britain. By W. Pryce, of Redruth in Cornwall.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.
Standardized Title:
Mineralogia Cornubiensis. Prospectus
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mines and mineral resources--England--London--Early works to 1800.
Mines and mineral resources.
Smelting--Early works to 1800.
Smelting.
Assaying--Early works to 1800.
Assaying.
Genre:
Prospectuses.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (4p. )
Other Title:
In the press. dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall
Place of Publication:
[London : s.n., 1778?]
Notes:
The work was published in 1778.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T178837.
OCLC:
509290420

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