Excerpt from The Metallurgy of Argentiferous Lead: A Practical Treatise on the Smelting of Silver-Lead Ores and the Refining of Lead Bullion Including Reports on Various Smelting Establishments Descriptions in Europe and America Mr. Hahn is at the present time in the Transvaal, engaged in the erection of the first lead-smelting works set up in South Africa, which I hope Will lead the way to the development there of a new industry, placing the South African Republic also in the list of silver-producing countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.