Old Mines of Southern California - Desert-Mountain-Coastal Areas Including the Calico-Salton Sea Colorado River Districts and Southern CountiesThe mining industry in this county is not as extensive as that of...
Rock Blasting - A Practical Treatise on the Means Employed in Blasting Rocks for Industrial PurposesDuring the past decade, numerous and great changes have taken place in the system followed...
Sketches in Crude-oil - Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globeLife is too short to compile a book that would cover the subject...
Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them - A Key for the Ready Determination of All the Useful Minerals Within the United StatesMONEY IN THE ROCKSTHE UNDERGROUND WEALTH OF...
PetroleumAlthough numerous volumes have been written upon petroleum, and some very educational works on this important subject are to be found in technological literature, it is strange that prior to...
The Mentor: The Story of Coal, vol. 6, Num. 6, Serial No. 154, May 1, 1918While the vegetable origin of coal is beyond question, two rival views are current among...
A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904this outline of their associated history is respectfully dedicated by one who knows the hardships and dangers of their lives, who understands their...
The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 - Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc.In placing...
The Miner's Friend; Or, An Engine to Raise Water by FireSIR, Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an experiment before you at Hampton-court, of a small model of...
The Natural History of ClayBoth as raw materials and in the form of pottery, bricks, tiles, terra-cotta and many other articles of use and ornament, clays are amongst the most...
Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical MenSome years ago the author published a small book entitled Practical Mining, designed specially for the use of those engaged in the always...
The Business of Mining - A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of minesThere is probably no line of human activity that is not beset...
De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 eorgius Agricola was born at Glauchau, in Saxony, on March 24th, 1494, and therefore entered the world when it...
Asbestos, Its production and use - With some account of the asbestos mines of CanadaThe substance of the following pages was originally comprised in a series of Letters from Canada...
Geological Report on Asbestos and its Indications, in the Province of Quebec, CanadaHAVING been called upon to make a close and careful examination of the geological formations in the eastern...
Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and LaterCoins are a source of information much used by historians. Elaborately detailed mining landscapes on 16th-century German coins in the National Museum, discovered by...
Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining Chief Industry.Mining is the chief industry of California. It employs more men and pays larger average wages than any other branch of physical labor....
The Beginnings of Cheap Steel Other inventors claimed a part in the invention of the Bessemer process of making steel. Here, the contemporary discussion in the technical press is re-examined...
The Economic Aspect of GeologyIn adapting ourselves to physical environment it has been necessary to learn something about the earth. Mainly within the last century has this knowledge been organized...
Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration This volume is a condensation of a series of lectures delivered in part at Stanford and in part at Columbia Universities. It is...
Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and FuelIn the years 1857 and 1858, the writer, in the capacity of Chemist to the State Agricultural Society of Connecticut, was commissioned to...
Traité des Arènes - construites au Pays de Liége, pour l'écoulement et l'épuisement des eaux dans les ouvrages souterrains des exploitations de mines de houilleDans son action destructive, le temps...
Diggers in the EarthThe four books of this series have been written not merely to provide agreeable reading matter for children, but to give them information. When a child can...