Cajon (unit)
The cajon was a mass unit for ore in the South American countries Argentina , Bolivia , Chile and Peru .
The general basis for a quintal ( Spanish for: hundredweight) was the Spanish Libra with four arrobas . One arroba was equivalent to 11.506 kilograms .
- Argentina and Bolivia
- 1 cajon = 50 quintales ~ 2301 kilograms
- Chile
- 1 cajon = 64 quintales ~ 2945 kilograms
- Peru
- 1 cajon = 60 quintales ~ 2761 kilograms
Using the Castilian Libra with 460 grams for a Marc of eight ounces, an attempt was made to obtain the silver content by "equating" with the cajon. A cajon was understood to mean a weight of ten quintals / hundredweight to 100 libra / pound or 12,000 marcs; So an ore of twelve marcs in the cajon. The processable ores usually had no more than eight to ten Marc of silver on the cajon ore.
literature
- Ricardo N. Alonso: Diccionario minero: glosario de voces utilizadas por los mineros de Iberoamerica. Editorial CSIC Press, Madrid 1995, ISBN 84-00-07545-5 , p. 53.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Karl Friedrich Viktor Alten : Handbook for Army and Fleet: Encyclopedia of War Studies and Related Areas. Volume 2, German publishing house Bong, Berlin 1909, p. 656.