"Low quality" Quotes from Famous Books
... of free silica; with this class of ores, care should be taken to remove some of the silica by preliminary vanning, or some flux should be added which will combine with the silica, and so prevent its entering into combination with the tin. Low quality tin ores containing iron, copper, lead, zinc, antimony, etc., combined with arsenic, sulphur, or oxygen, will give very much higher results than the actual percentage of tin in the sample. The other metals ... — A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer |