The Assayer's Guide: Or, Practical Directions to Assayers, Miners, and Smelters, for the Tests and Assays, by Heat and by Wet Processes, of the Ores of All the Principal Metals, and of Gold and Silver Coins and Alloys |
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| Title | The Assayer's Guide: Or, Practical Directions to Assayers, Miners, and Smelters, for the Tests and Assays, by Heat and by Wet Processes, of the Ores of All the Principal Metals, and of Gold and Silver Coins and Alloys |
| Author | Oscar Montgomery Lieber |
| Publisher | H. C. Baird, 1852 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 2 May 2006 |
| Length | 117 pages |
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