Excerpt from A Dictionary of Spanish, Spanish-American, Portuguese, and Portuguese-American Mining, Metallurgical and Allied Terms As the author resided for some years in Mexico and Colombia (south America), the terms used in those Republics are naturally more fully represented in this work than those of other spanish-american 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.