AbstractsEarth & Environmental Science

"The great variety of ores in which silver occurs, usually makes it necessary to employ complicated processes for its extraction. The extraction of the precious metal admits of two general processes viz. The Dry, and Wet Way and as I have chosen the latter for the subject of my thesis, we will be dispensed with the Dry Way, and will try and give all the processes and forms in which silver is extracted by the Wet Way" – p. 1.