As an avid reader ( and someone who has an extremely wide variety of interest ), I have noticed that one of the things that gets discussed in this forum, is the smelting and recovery of gold from magnetic black sands. While I have very limited experience with gold, I noticed that I might be able to supply fellow members of the forum with data that might make their efforts in smelting gold a little easier.
As apart of investigating the hobby of iron smelting and knowing the use and desirability by smelting hobbyist of magnetite as an ore for the smelting of iron, the understanding of fluxes and how they work might help not just those dealing with smelting iron but those that are trying to remove iron oxides while smelting gold or other metal. As such I have some e-books from the mid to late 1800's and the earliest parts of the 1900's that as a part of the book talk about fluxes and how they work with iron oxide and as such I am going to try sharing them with this forum.
There is a problem in the fact that the e-books that are in .pdf format and are quite large, the smallest of them is about 15 MB which is about 3 times what is allowable for blog uploads, and neither Tim G or I have any idea how well the forum will handle such large files, so he told me to try and he will let me know if there is a problem with them - at which point I will remove them.
After promoting from GreatGrandmother Rose and a couple of others and with permission from Tim G, I am hopefully going to be able give to the forum the first of 4 e-books about iron smelting.
The manufacture of iron in all its various branches - 1851
File Size Warning ~70 MB
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I normally just check the Table of Contents to find the page of the section/chapter that fluxes are discussed and then use the ability that Acrobat Reader has to input a page number and go right to the .pdf page, but I also keep in mind that the page number that Acrobat Reader displays and the actual page number in the book do not always match, because often the cover of the book counts as .pdf page 1 and the book can have several blank pages and various introductions and prefaces that are still counted by the .pdf reader, that are not counted by the physical book.