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    The patio process is a process for extracting silver from ore. Smelting, or refining, is most often necessary because silver is only infrequently found...
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  • longer used. The patio process had been used to extract silver from ore since its invention in 1557. One drawback of the patio process was the long treatment...
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  • Parkes process was used. Lead smelter Pattison's Process Patio process Pauling, Linus General Chemistry W.H.Freeman 1947 ed. "Parkes process (chemistry)"...
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    1504 in Seville) was a Spanish merchant known for his invention of the patio process. In Europe, he learned the economics of litharge smelting, and, from...
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    (Alberger process, Grainer evaporation process) Semiconductor crystals – (Bridgman–Stockbarger method, Czochralski method) Silver – (Patio process, Parkes...
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    was not the chief cause of deaths in the mines. The patio process and later pan amalgamation process continued to create great demand for mercury to treat...
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    tonnes of mercury were lost to the environment in this process in the Americas since the patio process was first used. 60–65% of this is likely released into...
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    revived by the introduction of the patio process, invented by Spanish merchant Bartolomé de Medina in 1554. The patio process used mercury amalgamation to extract...
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    supplemented earlier patio process and pan amalgamation. It was replaced by the Parkes process in the mid-19th century. Parkes process - a method for separation...
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  • during the Vietnam War Patio process, metallurgical process Los Patios, town in Colombia All pages with titles containing Patio This disambiguation page...
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  • Pan amalgamation, another extraction method with additional compound Patio process, the use of mercury amalgamation to extract silver Amalgamation (geology)...
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    development of the patio process in Mexico in 1557. There were also additional amalgamation processes that were created for processing silver ores, including...
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    eventually developed the Washoe process of using steam-heated iron pans, which reduced the weeks required by the patio process to hours.: 41–45, 80  In the...
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    ore using the patio process. This caused Pachuca to grow even more with the discovery of new deposits and accelerated extraction processes. Mining operations...
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    silver was depleted by the 1560s and production declined. However, the Patio process, a new method of purifying silver ore using mercury, was invented in...
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    into pure silver by amalgamation with mercury in what was known as the patio process. Ore was crushed with the aid of mules and then mercury could be applied...
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    the gold, and the mercury was saved for reuse. For silver ore, the patio process, invented in Mexico in 1554, was generally used to recover the silver...
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    anew after the introduction of a silver extraction method known as patio process, using mercury to form silver amalgams and extract silver from low-grade...
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  • Ignaz von Born introduces a method of extracting metals using the patio process in his Ueber des Anquicken der gold- und silberhältigen Erze, published...
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    as the prevalent refining processes in the early 19th century (the patio process and later the pan amalgamation process) required mercury; during the...
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    Mercury was essential for the refinement of silver and gold in the patio process (see also amalgamation). The Spanish government had a monopoly of mercury...
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    institution membership required.) Alan Probert, "Bartolomé de Medina: The Patio Process and the Sixteenth Century Silver Crisis" in Bakewell, Peter, ed. Mines...
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    mercury supply, used for separating pure silver from silver ore in the patio process. The crown kept the price high, thereby depressing the volume of silver...
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    of Potosí in Upper Peru (now Bolivia), using amalgamation processes such as the patio process or pan amalgamation. Mercury was so essential that mercury...
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    the arrastra, the patio process, the Freiberg process, and the Washoe pan process. Estimates of value lost through recovery processes ran as high as 25%...
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    extract silver from ore by high heat, the invention in 1554 of the patio process that used mercury to chemically extract the silver from ore was a breakthrough...
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    treaties and alliances to ensure the survival of their people. In this process, many indigenous peoples ended up participating in the military conquests...
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  • Mexican pink. Serape. Quechquemitl. Hacienda, Spanish/Mexican invention. Patio process: For removal of silver from ore. Vanadium: Achemical element discovered...
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  • El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and was an essential element in the patio process for extracting silver from ore in Chihuahua mines. Historically, caravans...
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    amalgamation, also known as patio process; using mercury, this method allowed efficiently extract silver from the ore. The patio process, active until the beginning...
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