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Native element minerals

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• Chemical elements
• Minerals

• Arsenic
• Bismuth
• Copper
• Diamonds
• Gold
• Iron
• Lead
• Selenium
• Sulfur

• Elemental minerals

• Radiochemistry of Arsenic, by Harold C. Beard and J. G. Cuninghame (PDF at lanl.gov)

• Arsenic, by Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Arsenic, by Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Shadows From the Walls of Death (specimens of arsenical wallpapers, with preceding commentary; Lansing: W. S. George and Co., 1874), by R. C. Kedzie (page images at NIH)

• Radiochemistry of Bismuth, by Kashinath S. Bhakti (PDF at lanl.gov)

• The Radiochemistry of Copper, by F. F. Dyer and G. W. Leddicote (PDF at lanl.gov)

• Diamond Design (1919 original text with notes and corrections by editor in 2001), by Marcel Tolkowsky, ed. by Jasper Paulsen (illustrated HTML with commentary at folds.net)
• Fire in the Earth: The Story of the Diamond (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1942), by James Remington McCarthy (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• The Book of Diamonds: Their Curious Lore, Properties, Tests and Synthetic Manufacture (New York: Hearthside Press, 1940), by John Willard Hershey (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• The Diamond (London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Wallis Richard Cattelle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Diamond Design: A Study of the Reflection and Refraction of Light in a Diamond (London: E. and F. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1919), by Marcel Tolkowsky
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Diamonds (London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909), by William Crookes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Diamonds of the World: Their History and Romance (London: G. Bell and Sons, ca. 1882), by Edwin W. Streeter, ed. by Joseph Hatton and A. H. Keane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Papers and Notes on the Genesis and Matrix of the Diamond (London et al: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897), by Henry Carvill Lewis, ed. by T. G. Bonney (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• Diamonds and Precious Stones: A Popular Account of Gems (New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1876), by Louis Dieulafait, trans. by Fanchon Sanford (page images at MOA)
• Diamonds and Precious Stones: Their History, Value, and Distinguishing Characteristics; With Simple Tests For Their Identification. (second edition; London: J.C. Hotten, 1867), by Harry Emanuel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Diamonds, Pearls and Precious Stones (Boston: Printed for Smith Patterson Co. by Griffith-Stillings Press, 1913), by Marcell Nelson Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Diamond: A Study in Chinese and Hellenistic Folk-Lore (Field Museum of Natural History publication #184; 1915), by Berthold Laufer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls (fourth edition; London: E. Lumley, n.d.), by David Jeffries (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)

• Knaves of Diamonds: Being Tales of Mine and Veld (London: C. A. Pearson, 1899), by George Chetwynd Griffith, illust. by E. F. Sherie and T. Ayton Symington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Renshaw Fanning's Quest, by Bertram Mitford, illust. by Stanley L. Wood (Gutenberg text)

• Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)

• The Radiochemistry of Gold, by J. F. Emery and G. W. Leddicote (PDF at lanl.gov)
• Three Letters on the Price of Gold: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle (London) in August-November, 1809 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1903), by David Ricardo (page images at Google; US access only)
• Geld und Gold: Ökonomische Theorie des Geldes (in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1916), by Robert Liefmann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• French Financial Policy (Foreign Policy Reports v8 #20; 1932), by John C. De Wilde (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Methods for the Recovery of Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, Gold, and Silver from Jewelers' Waste (US Bureau of Mines technical paper #342; Washington: GPO, 1924), by Charles Wesley Davis
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gold Bulletin (issues open access from 1971-2015) (partial serial archives)

• The Lake of Gold: A Narrative of the Anglo-American Conquest of Europe (London: F. V. White, 1903), by George Chetwynd Griffith
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Gold Bulletin (issues open access from 1971-2015) (partial serial archives)

• Gold Bulletin (issues open access from 1971-2015) (partial serial archives)

• Recovery of Lithium From Clay by Selective Chlorination (report of investigations 8523; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1981), by C. F. Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water Chlorine (Residual) No. 1, Study Number 35: Report of a Study Conducted by Analytical Reference Service (Cincinnati: U.S. Public Health Service, Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, Environmental Control Administration, 1969), by Raymond J. Lishka, Earl F. McFarren, and J. H. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gold Bulletin (issues open access from 1971-2015) (partial serial archives)

• The Case for Gold: A Minority Report of the U.S. Gold Commission (1982), by Ron Paul and Lewis E. Lehrman (PDF at mises.org)
• Gold, Peace, and Prosperity: The Birth of a New Currency (1981), by Ron Paul (PDF at mises.org)
• The Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar (1991), by Murray N. Rothbard (HTML and PDF at mises.org)
• The Gold Standard Versus "A Managed Currency", With Some Observations on the Quantity Theory of Money (published as a number of the Chase Economic Bulletin, 1925), by Benjamin M. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in Persuasion (1931), by John Maynard Keynes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Radiochemistry of Iron, by Julian Moyes Nielsen (PDF at lanl.gov)

• The Iron Star, and What It Saw on Its Journey Through the Ages, by John Preston True (Gutenberg text)

• Ironwork (2 volumes; London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1893-1896), by John Starkie Gardner
  • Volume I (from earliest times to end of the medieval period): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (end of the medieval period to the end of the 18th century): multiple formats at archive.org

• American Malleable Iron: A Handbook (Cleveland: Malleable Founders' Society, 1944), by Malleable Founders' Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vapor Pressures of Liquid Iron and Liquid Nickel (report of investigations 5364; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 19507), by Joe Perry Morris, Glenn R. Zellars, S. L. Payne, and Richard L. Kipp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and Its Modern Fate, by Donald B. Wagner (HTML at donwagner.dk)

• The Radiochemistry of Lead, by Walter Maxwell Gibson (PDF at lanl.gov)

• The Radiochemistry of Selenium, by V. J. Molinski and G. W. Leddicote (PDF at lanl.gov)
• Selenium: Its Electrical Qualities, and the Effect of Light Thereon (1877), by Willoughby Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Radium, and Other Radio-Active Substances: Polonium, Actinium, and Thorium (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co.; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1904), by William Joseph Hammer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Radiochemistry of Sulfur, by G. W. Leddicote (PDF at lanl.gov)

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