The environmental history of silver refining in New Spain is the aggregate result of two refining processes, amalgamation and smelting, that emit two completely different sets of chemicals and impose two distinct levels of woodland depletion upon the environment. Over 60% of its silver was produced by amalgamation, a physical term that hides the complex and concatenated chemical reactions that transform silver sulphides into amalgamated silver and calomel. The chemical ratios and the historical levels of the correspondencia (mercury to silver weight ratio) are shown to mathematically restrict the possible level of physical losses of mercury during amalgamation to less than 15% on average, with mercury in calomel constituting the balance. Ju...
This paper discusses the emergence of silver metallurgy some two millennia ago in the south central ...
Galena is treated as the most important silver ore in antiquity and especially in Roman mining histo...
Silver was the metal that initiated interdependence throughout the world; establishing connections b...
The development of the patio amalgamation process into an industrial scale operation in 1554 stimula...
Slag debris of ancient metalurgical activities in the South of the Iberian Peninsula show various as...
Silver plays important roles in pre-Columbian, colonial and modern South American societies. Case st...
This thesis considers the technology employed to produce silver within the Porco-Potosi region, sout...
Very often, the production of silver causes devastating environmental issues, because of the use of ...
The development of the mercury (Hg) amalgamation process in the mid-sixteenth century triggered the ...
This paper deals with the concept of corruption, trying to assess its magnitude by analyzing the rel...
This is an overview of the famous patio refining process used in colonial mining, set in the perspec...
Abstract The development of the mercury (Hg) amal-gamation process in the mid-sixteenth century trig...
The extraction of silver has been traditionally considered one of the main incentives for the Phoeni...
Presencia UniversitariaDesde el descubrimiento de la plata, las civilizaciones se han asombrado de s...
In the early modern period, the world economy gravitated around the expansion of long-distance comme...
This paper discusses the emergence of silver metallurgy some two millennia ago in the south central ...
Galena is treated as the most important silver ore in antiquity and especially in Roman mining histo...
Silver was the metal that initiated interdependence throughout the world; establishing connections b...
The development of the patio amalgamation process into an industrial scale operation in 1554 stimula...
Slag debris of ancient metalurgical activities in the South of the Iberian Peninsula show various as...
Silver plays important roles in pre-Columbian, colonial and modern South American societies. Case st...
This thesis considers the technology employed to produce silver within the Porco-Potosi region, sout...
Very often, the production of silver causes devastating environmental issues, because of the use of ...
The development of the mercury (Hg) amalgamation process in the mid-sixteenth century triggered the ...
This paper deals with the concept of corruption, trying to assess its magnitude by analyzing the rel...
This is an overview of the famous patio refining process used in colonial mining, set in the perspec...
Abstract The development of the mercury (Hg) amal-gamation process in the mid-sixteenth century trig...
The extraction of silver has been traditionally considered one of the main incentives for the Phoeni...
Presencia UniversitariaDesde el descubrimiento de la plata, las civilizaciones se han asombrado de s...
In the early modern period, the world economy gravitated around the expansion of long-distance comme...
This paper discusses the emergence of silver metallurgy some two millennia ago in the south central ...
Galena is treated as the most important silver ore in antiquity and especially in Roman mining histo...
Silver was the metal that initiated interdependence throughout the world; establishing connections b...