The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55: 1621-1624; Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55: 1621-1624; Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
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_Quicksilver_. 3. On the said day, April six, three libras of
quicksilver were incorporated with three quintals of ore from the
said hole and vein, which was obtained at a depth of ten estados;
and the mixture was compounded with salt. It was washed on the tenth
of the said month, and a small grain of gold of the weight of one-half
real was obtained. Eleven onzas of quicksilver were lost.
_Quicksilver_. 4. On Sunday, April seven, two quintals of the same
ore from the said hole and vein were incorporated with two libras
of quicksilver, having roasted the ore while in the form of stone,
before crushing it. On the eleventh it was washed, and a small grain
of gold of the weight of one-half real was obtained. Six onzas of
quicksilver were lost.
[5.] That day, the eleventh of the said month, in a second refinement,
the dust and sediment that remained from a quintal of the same ore
was put on the fire. On being fused with twenty-three libras of lead,
nothing was obtained from the said assay.
_Quicksilver_. 6. Saturday, the thirteenth of the said month of April,
one libra of quicksilver was incorporated with two and one-half
arrobas of ore obtained from certain excavations found below the
earth inside a little hut, near our fort and the said mine, which was
burned by the Igolotes. On the eighteenth of the month it was washed,
and a grain of gold weighing one real was obtained; and three onzas
of quicksilver were lost.
_Quicksilver_. 7. Tuesday, the sixteenth, four libras of quicksilver
were incorporated with four quintals of ore obtained at a depth of
ten or eleven estados in the said mine and hole. Having made that
assay in a stove, on the twenty-second of the said month of April
they washed the said four quintals of ore, and obtained a grain of
gold of the weight of one real. Two onzas of quicksilver were lost.
_Quicksilver_. 8. Wednesday, the seventeenth, one libra of quicksilver
was incorporated with one quintal of the said ore, obtained at a depth
of eleven estados. Having been treated in a reverberating furnace, on
the twenty-second of the said month it was washed and a small grain
of gold of barely the weight of half a real was obtained. Three and
one-half onzas of quicksilver were lost.
_Quicksilver_. 9. Thursday, April eighteen, they recrushed and washed
the sweepings and residue of the first three quintals of ore which
had been compounded with quicksilver. With the one quintal that
resulted therefrom, they incorporated on the said day one libra of
quicksilver. On the twenty-second it was washed, and for the second
time a small grain of gold was obtained of the weight of one-quarter
real. Two and one-half onzas of quicksilver were lost.
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