Juan Capellín, Spanish / Mexican
miner (séc.XVI) Invented a new system of iron brazen
mallets for increasing the capacity of milling (1567) Invented a device for recovering the mercury in the mining of pure silver. There is some controversy here. For some authors is a large bronze bell named capelline but for others isn’t this the device that he invented Invención
para sacar la plata con azogue (1576) Improved amalgamation technique for silver mining (1582) |
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