The startling new method Medina introduced for extracting silver from ore was sorely needed by silver mine owners in the New World. As the nineteenth century went out, …
In 1554, the Spanish merchant Bartolomé de Medina developed the patio process, which uses mercury in the process of extracting silver from the mined ore. This patio process made mines in …
Patio process, method of isolating silver from its ore that was used from the 16th to early in the 20th century; the process was apparently commonly used by Indians in America before the arrival of the Europeans. The silver ore was crushed and ground by mule power in …
After Bartolomé de Medina developed the patio process, silver mining was revitalized in 16th century America. With amalgamations now in their repertoire, precious …
The industrial application of the patio amalgamation process in Spanish–American silver mines was first made at Pachuca mines, New Spain (now …
The patio process was a process used to extract silver ore. It was developed by Bartolomé Medina in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico in 1557 for the Pachuca-Real del Monte …
Bartolome de Medina's development of the patio (mercury amalgamation) process into an industrial scale operation in 1554 stimulated the production of silver in South America at …
In 1554, he developed what later became known as the patio process, an open-air system of beneficiation that mixed finely ground silver ore with mercury and other reagents. …
