Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury : (Record no. 130438)
[ view plain ]
| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 09594nam a22005413i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | EBC5045666 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | MiAaPQ |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240729131452.0 |
| 006 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--ADDITIONAL MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS | |
| fixed length control field | m o d | |
| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | cr cnu|||||||| |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 240724s2017 xx o ||||0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789004343832 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9789004343825 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC5045666 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL5045666 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)1036776604 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| -- | pn |
| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | TN760 .G84 2017 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Guerrero, Saul. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury : |
| Remainder of title | a Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico, 16th to 19th Centuries. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Boston : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | BRILL, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2017. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (468 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | European Expansion and Indigenous Response Series ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | v.25 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro -- Contents -- General Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Colour Plates -- Tables -- Guide to the Text -- Chemical Symbols -- Units of Measure -- Equivalence of Units of Measure -- Monetary Units -- Translations -- Illustrations and Drawings -- Cover Illustration -- Photographs -- Other -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Genesis and Nature of Silver Ores -- Why Spain? -- To Have and Have Not -- Old World Silver Ores -- New World Silver Ores -- Silver Sulphide and Silver Chloride -- Argentiferous Galena -- A Red Herring -- The Other Chemical Keys -- The Immoveable Object and the Unstoppable Force -- The Table is Set -- Chapter 2. The Dry Refining Process: Smelting of Silver Ores -- Deceitful Mercury -- Smelting of Silver Ores: The Human Context -- The Chemistry of Smelting and the Nature of the Ore -- The Architecture of Smelting in New Spain -- The Infrastructure of Smelting in New Spain -- Plata de fuego (Silver by Fire) -- Chapter 3. The Dry Refining Process: Its Impact on the Environment -- Lead: The Nature of Its Consumption -- Lead: The Directionality of Its Loss -- Lead: Its Source -- Charcoal and the Scale of Depletion of Woodland -- The Local Environmental Impact of Smelting -- A Straightforward Decision -- Chapter 4. The Wet Refining Process: The Chemistry of the patio Process -- Plus ça change -- The Alchemy of Mercury -- The Gold Connection -- The Complex Mechanism of a Mercury-Based Refining Process -- The correspondencia: The Key to the Fate of Mercury -- The Loss of Calomel -- The Stages in the Use of Mercury to Refine Gold and Silver Ores -- The Twists in the Trail -- Mercury-Based Refining of Silver Ores: The Human Factor -- Plata de azogue (Silver by Mercury) -- Chapter 5. The Physical Infrastructure of the patio Process. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The patio Process -- Milling the Ore -- The patio Reactor -- Planillas -- The azoguería, or Mercury Room -- Desazogaderas or capellinas and the Recycling of Mercury -- The Architecture of the patio Process -- The Environmental Impact Vectors of the patio Process -- A Unique Industrial Effort -- Chapter 6. The Hacienda Santa María de Regla -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte -- The Hacienda de Regla -- Main Process Areas -- Main Gate and Storage of Incoming Ore -- Stamp Mills, Chilean Mills and arrastres -- The patio Reactor -- Furnace Area A: Covered storage, hornos castellanos and capellinas -- Furnace Area B: English Blast Furnaces -- Final Comments on the Architectural Layout of Regla -- The Mass Balance of the Silver Refining Processes at Regla, 1872 to 1888 -- Chapter 7. The patio Process and Smelting at Regla -- The Keys to an Efficient patio Process at Regla -- Coordinated Milling and Supply to the patio Reactor -- An Intelligent and Interactive Application of the patio Process Recipe -- Long Term Planning of Inventory -- Optimal Use of the patio Reactor Area -- Low Use of Fuel in the patio Process -- The Challenges of the Smelting Process at Regla -- An Unpredictable Supply of Ore -- Low Lead Content in the Ores -- However, a Very Efficient Fuel Consumption -- The Efficiency of Extracting Silver at Regla -- The Labour Force at Regla -- The Mass Balance for the patio Process at Regla -- The Mass Balance for Smelting at Regla -- The Environmental Loss Vectors in the Period 1872 to 1888 -- a. The Stream Flowing Past the South and Eastern Perimeter Walls of Regla -- b. The Soil within the Perimeter Walls of Regla -- c. Airborne Emissions and Deposition of Airborne Particles in and around Regla -- d. Loss of Woodland -- A Snapshot of a Refining hacienda. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Chapter 8. The Economies of Refining Silver -- Roads to Riches -- Refining Costs in New Spain, as Reported -- The Refining Costs at Regla -- The Macroeconomic Context in the Nineteenth Century -- The Variable Costs of the patio Process at Regla, 1872-1888 -- The Variable Costs of Smelting at Regla, 1875-1886 -- Refining Cost as a Function of Silver Content -- A Window to the Past: Extrapolating the Results from Regla -- The False Positives of the patio Process -- Apples and Pears -- 'Ganando indulgencias con escapulario ajeno' -- The Succour to Refiners -- Barrel Process -- Silver in the Context of Other Commodity Trades -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 9. The Environmental Impact of Silver Refining: A Shift of Paradigm -- The Base Line -- An Estimate of the Breakdown of Silver Production by Refining Process by Caja -- Caja of Zacatecas -- Caja of Guanajuato -- Caja of México -- Caja of Durango -- Caja of San Luis Potosí -- Caja of Guadalajara -- Caja of Pachuca -- Caja of Sombrerete -- Caja of Bolaños -- Caja of Rosario -- Caja of Zimapán -- Caja of Chihuahua -- Aggregate Totals for New Spain -- Aggregate Totals for Mexico, 1820 to 1900 -- Environmental Impact Vectors, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century -- The Environmental Impact on New Spain and 19c Mexico: The Modern Legacy -- A Change of Paradigm -- What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? -- Was Mercury the Indispensable Key to Silver in the New World? -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. The Accounting Books of Regla -- 1. Sección: Explotación y Beneficio, Serie: Informes de Haciendas de Beneficio, Subserie: Informes Mensuales Hacienda de Regla Vol. 225, Exp. 3: 29 Jun 1872-27 Oct 1888 -- 2. Sección: Negociaciones, Serie: Haciendas de Beneficio, Subserie: Hacienda de Regla I, Vol. 22: 1875-1878. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 3. Sección: Contabilidad de la Dirección, Serie: Producción y Gastos, Subserie: Estados Comparativos, 1853-1855, 1859-1865, 1869-1873 -- 4. Sección: Ymporte de la Memoria de la Mina, Serie Informes de Minas I, Vol. 13 -- Appendix B. Sensitivity Matrix for Refining Costs -- Appendix C. Estimates of Silver Production by Caja and Refining Process, Including Balance of Mercury Consumption and Physical Losses -- Caja of Zacatecas (Table C-I) -- Caja of Guanajuato (Table C-II) -- Caja of México (Table C-III) -- Caja of Durango (Table C-IV) -- Caja of San Luis Potosí (Table C-V) -- Caja of Guadalajara (Table C-VI) -- Caja of Sombrerete (Table C-VIII) -- Caja of Bolaños (Table C-IX) -- Caja of Rosario (Table C-X) -- Caja of Chihuahua (Table C-XII) -- Glossary of Technical Terms in Spanish -- Archival Sources -- Archivo General de la Nación, Ciudad de México (AGN) -- Archivo Histórico de la Compañía de Minas del Real del Monte y Pachuca (AHCRMyP) -- Archivo Histórico del Estado de Zacatecas (AHEZ) -- Archivo Histórico de San Luis Potosí (AHSLP) -- Archivo Histórico de la Universidad de Guanajuato (AHUG) -- Mapoteca Manuel Orozco y Berra, Ciudad de México (MMOB) -- British Library, London, U.K. (BL) -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury Saul Guerrero presents a chemical history of the refining of silver ores in New Spain and Mexico, 16c to 19c, with a quantitative analysis of its industrial practice, and its environmental impact. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Silver-Refining-Mexico-History-16th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Silver-Refining-Mexico-History-17th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Silver-Refining-Mexico-History-18th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Silver-Refining-Mexico-History-19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Silver-Metallurgy-Mexico-History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Metals-Refining-History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Extraction (Chemistry). |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Guerrero, Saul |
| Title | Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury: a Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico, 16th to 19th Centuries |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Boston : BRILL,c2017 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789004343825 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | European Expansion and Indigenous Response Series |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5045666">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5045666</a> |
| Public note | Click to View |
No items available.