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9. Minera Antimonij Hungarica. <Hungarian antimony ore.> Spies-Glas; i.e. Spear-Glass, or Antimony. M. de Schonberg. [It is found in Quantity in the Gold-Mines of Cremnitz <Kremnitz> in Veins, 300 or 400 fathom deep. Mr. Weber.] {E10-62} Spies-Glas [Spiessglas, G], literally 'spear-glass': an old German miners' term for stibnite. p. 28. $0.14. Minera Antimonij Hungarica. stellaris, & pulchrè striata: cum fluore etiam striato. <Hungarian antimony ore, radial and beautifully striated, with spars, also striated.

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isner. à Leibschersuffen. <From Lupscherseiffen> {E10-67} Radial stibnite. p. 30. Auri Minerae, Gold-Ores 71.3. Sand, so very fine, as to be almost impalpable, of a very dark grey Colour; but shining and glittering, not much unlike the Filings of Steel. Being view'd with a Microscope, there appear in it numerous small Grains of Gold, shining, and of a yellow Colour: and indeed some of them are so large as to be discern'd by the naked Eye. This was found on the Shores of the Danube, between Presburgh <Pressburg> and Comorrah <Komorn> in Hungary. The People that collect, wash, and dress it, find the greatest Quantities of it after great Rains, and melting of the Snow upon the Mountains, about Cremnitz <Kremnitz>, where the Gold-Mines* are. The Rain, and Snow-Water, falls down from those Mountains, by the Waag, Neytra <Neutra>, Gran, and other Rivers, with so great rapidity, as not to suffer the Gold-Dust to settle and precipitate in them, nor till 'tis brought to the Danube. (E-l 1-24} * WOODWARD'

s footnote: See Dr. Edward Brown's Account of them, in his Travels, p. 62 & seq. The gold content of the alluvial sediments of the Danube upriver from Comorrah is derived from the Alps (PANTO 1935). The rivers Waag and Gran also carry gold-bearing sediments (UZSOKI 1985), but they reach the Danube at, and below Comorrah, respectively. 7C.5. Aurum purum Fossile ex Hungária. <Pure dug gold from Hungary.> Dr. Scheuchzer. {E-l 1—25} 71.8. Dust-Gold. From the River in Hungary. Mr. Chishull. {E-l 1-29} Dashed in the manuscript catalogue: was probably illegible to WOODWARD. Gold washing was carried on along many of the rivers of the former Hungary including Transylvania (see UZSOKI 1985). 7C.9. Virgin-Gold, very fine, only wash'd. Out of the Vein of a Mine near Hermanstad, <Hermannstadt> [CibiniumJ in Hungary. Mr. Chishull. {E-l 1-30}