THE

METALLURGY OF COPPER.

A RUDIMENTARY TREATISE

ON THE

METALLURGY OF COPPER.

BEING A

CONCISE INTRODUCTION

TO THE

METHODS OF SEEKING, MINING, DRESSING, ASSAYING,
AND SMELTING THE ORES OF COPPER AND
MANUFACTURING ITS ALLOYS;

TOGETHER WITH HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL NOTICES
OF THE METAL.

BY

DR. ROBERT H. LAMBORN,

Cor. M. Imperial Royal Geo. Reichsanstalt, Vienna; M. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philada.
Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., &c.

LONDON:

JOHN WEALE, 59, HIGH HOLBORN.

1860.

193.c.80.

PREFACE.

THE Anglo-Saxon nations exceed all other in the value and amount of the metals and minerals they each year bring into commerce, yet their literature treating of the methods by which these subterranean treasures are raised and made valuable is small and unsatisfactory.

The Author does not expect within the compass of a Treatise of this size to do much towards extending that literature, but he ventures to believe that by furnishing in a condensed form, the principles of the metallurgy of copper, and a description and explanation of the latest and most important means of discovering and reducing the ores of that valuable metal, step by step, to a condition suited for the purposes of the manufacturer,—he will supply a source of information for which English smelters, students, and artisans, have long sought.

In concluding this volume the Author cannot omit returning his thanks to the owners and officers of various mines and furnaces upon this and the other