Mining Engineering, Metallurgy
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The ABC of Mining: A Handbook for ProspectorsThe A B C of Mining: A Handbook for Prospectors A steady demand for this work has shown that it fills a want, and serves the purpose for which it was written. In issuing this second edition, a few compositors' errors that had crept...
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The Natural History of ClayThe 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 important rock products. Yet the origin of the substances we know as 'clay,' the...
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Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical MenGetting 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 fascinating, though not as invariably profitable, pursuit of Getting Gold. Of this ten thousand...
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The Business of MiningThe 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 with malicious and ignorant intruders. The fact that any occupation or business is really...
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De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556De 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 was still upon the threshold of the Renaissance; Gutenberg's first book had been printed...
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Asbestos, Its production and useAsbestos, 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 to a friend in London, who was desirous of obtaining all the authentic information...
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Geological Report on Asbestos and its Indications, in the Province of Quebec, CanadaGeological 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 townships of Garthby, Wolf'stown, and Coleraine, situated in the province of Quebec, Canada, I...
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Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and LaterMine 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 the curator of numismatics and brought to the authors attention, led to this study...
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Hittel on Gold Mines and MiningHittel 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. Although it has been gradually decreasing in the amount of its production, in the...
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The Beginnings of Cheap SteelThe 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 to throw light on the relations of these various claimants to the iron and...
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The Economic Aspect of GeologyThe 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 into the science of geology, and only within the last few decades have the...
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Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and AdministrationPrinciples 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 intended neither for those wholly ignorant of mining, nor for those long experienced in...
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Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and FuelPeat 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 make investigations into the agricultural uses of the deposits of peat or swamp muck...
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Traité des ArènesTraité 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 n'eut jamais d'auxiliaire plus actif que les rvolutions; celles-ci font disparatre les ruines qu'il...
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Diggers in the EarthDiggers 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 look at a steel pen not simply as an article furnished by the city...
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Iron Making in the Olden TimesIron Making in the Olden Times - as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of DeanThe remarkable revival and development that has recently taken place in the Iron Works of the Forest of Dean, and the consequent improvement which...
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Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace TestingEngineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace TestingA boiler test is necessary in order to determine how well the boiler is doing the work expected of it; that is to say, we must find out whether we are wasting coal in making steam and...
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A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with MinesA Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.The Text-book now offered to the public has been prepared to meet the existing want of a practical "handy book" for the Assayer. To mining men the word "assaying" conveys a sufficiently clear...
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Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921All duties, rights, liabilities, authority and privileges relating to MINES and MINING, formerly had and exercised under the law by THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO, was, by the above mentioned law, conferred upon and imposed in THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL...
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The Story of a Piece of Coal: What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It GoesThe Story of a Piece of Coal: What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It GoesThe knowledge of the marvels which a piece of coal possesses within itself, and which in obedience to processes of man's invention it is always willing to exhibit...
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