1. Ingredients that were sometimes added were ground myrrh, nitre and hartshorn. 2. Nitre Bush is found across the mainland states of Australia.3. Selma's Confederate Nitre Works procured niter for gunpowder from limestone caves. 4. Nitre is the English spelling of " Niter ".5. It is an elevated limestone plateau with scree slopes, vegetated with nitre bush shrubland. 6. Typical vegetation is a low Nitre Bush ( " Nitraria billardierei " ) shrubland. 7. The Nitre and Mining Bureau also looked for " lost silver mines " near Camden, Arkansas. 8. As a crowning insult he actually burnt the works of these masters in a brass pan with sulfur and nitre ! 9. The Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau was formed to produce gunpowder for the army and the navy from domestic resources. 10. The cave was used since before 1835 as a source for nitre ( saltpeter ) for the manufacture of gunpowder.
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