Excerpt from Fire Assaying: A Practical Treatise on the Fire Assaying of Gold, Silver and Lead, Including Description of the Appliances Used The object of this work is to impart to students the fundamental principles of fire assaying, together with a few practical processes of ore testing. Since the appearance of these articles in Mines and Minerals they have been rewritten, and such material added as to bring them up to date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.