In all appearance it is impregnated with nitre, if not with something more mischievous: we know that mundic, or pyrites, very often contains a proportion of arsenic, mixed with sulphur, vitriol, and mercury. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Closely allied to this subject is the investigation of the mode in which certain metals are reduced from their solutions by metallic sulphides, or, in common language, the influence which the presence of such substances as mundic and galena may exercise in effecting the deposit of pure metals, such as gold, in mineral lodes. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He stared at the wavering gloom in the cavern, with its quaint, angular splashes of glister, where heads of quartz and patches of mundic caught the light from the unsteady flame of the candle, and presently he was ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Thinking, doubtless, that I was like unto the ordinary city fellow who comes at rare intervals to look at a mine, he made me a present of a piece of rock with some worthless garnets in it, also a sample of country rock pregnant with mundic; the garnets and the mundic glittered in the sunshine. ❋ A. G. Hales (N/A)
I fancy an inkling of the truth dawned in that Dutchman's soul at last, for he made no further reference to either garnets or mundic. ❋ A. G. Hales (N/A)
But he stopped grinning before the afternoon wore out, for I set him climbing and clambering for little pieces of mundic and tiny patches of garnets in all the toughest places I could find in that mine, and went into ecstasies over each individual piece, until I had quite ❋ A. G. Hales (N/A)
They say that the stream that flows into the port is still heavily charged with mundic. ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)
For the encouragement of the mining trade, the 5th of William and Mary, chap. 17, exempted from this prohibition, iron, copper, and mundic metal made from British ore. ❋ Unknown (1909)
"A mussy me! as if every lad here didn't know what mundic was!" cried ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Cop -- no, only mundic," cried Will, who had nearly been caught tripping. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Well, what is mundic, then?" said Mr Temple quickly to Josh. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Only mundic," he said, as he inspected it more closely. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
To kindle a fire they strike a pebble against a piece of mundic, holding under it, to catch the sparks, some moss or down, mixed with a whitish earth, which takes fire like tinder: They then take some dry grass; of which there is every-where plenty, and, putting the lighted moss into it, wave it to and fro, and in about a minute it blazes. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
In the reign of William and Mary, copper became fo plentiful, that that the Afts of Henry VUL and Edward VI. [fee p. 30] were partially repealed; and it was made lawful to export all manner of iron, cop - per, and mundic-metal. -f* This ftep appears to have been an impo - litic excefs: it was turning away a whole river merely to abate a cafual overflowing. ❋ William Langworthy (1793)
a moment, and they gave us same of their arms in return; they gave us also several pieces of mundic, such as is found in the tin mines of ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
"What's mundic?" growled Josh, picking up a yellow metallic-looking piece of rock; "why, that is, and that is, and that is. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
