Please feel free to request a detailed description. Short description: Eissler, M. [The metallurgie of gold]. Metallurgiya zolota: Prakticheskoe rukovodstvo k metallurgicheskoj obrabotke zolotosoderzhashchih rud, so vklyucheniem proby, plavki i ochistki zolota / Translated by K.A. Kulibin from the second add. ed. – Saint Petersbourg: F.I. Bazilevsky, 1890. – XVI, 502 p.: ill. The book details the technological processes involved in extracting gold from ore. It explores the characteristics of gold-bearing ore, the composition of gold, and the geographical distribution of gold-rich regions. Additionally, it outlines the conditions necessary for the formation of gold deposits, recounts the history of gold mining, and provides an in-depth description of the various stages involved, such as ore crushing, processing, smelting, and testing. The text is enriched with diagrams illustrating the machinery utilized in the gold industry. The translation was completed by Konstantin Aleksandrovich Kulibin (1834–1914), a distinguished mining engineer and one of the three renowned Kulibin brothers, grandsons of the legendary inventor Ivan Kulibin. SKUMS001009