Gold Mining Prospecting Maps Minerals 20 Books on DVD

The Ultimate Collection of Classic Books on

Gold Prospecting and Gold Mining

Where or how to find Gold? This ultimate collection of 20 classic books (in PDF format) will tell you everything you want to know and need to know about Gold Prospecting and Gold Mining!

Please note: Each of these 20 PDF Reprints is an electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in around 1900s.

PDF Reprint #1

63 Pages

Famous Gold Nuggets of the World

In these days of wonderful gold discoveries one is apt to forget the big finds of the past, which set the world wild with excitement and gave such impetus to mining about half a century ago. This brief account of famous gold nuggets will help to revive the memories of the golden days of Australia and California, and to show how history tends to repeat itself in gold mining as well as in other mundane affairs.

PDF Reprint #2

205 Pages

Prospecting for Gold and Silver

In preparing this little work the author has felt the difficulty which arises in a theoretical dissertation on so eminently practical a subject as prospecting... Whilst we have endeavoured to give the prospector all assistance in our power, as to the best means of educating himself, describing his outfit, etc., we have devoted special attention to the description of such geological and other phenomena as he is likely to meet with in connection with his work, so that he may have an intelligent idea of them when he encounters them.

PDF Reprint #3

193 Pages

Drilling for Placer Gold

This book includes: Part I, Prospecting for Placer Gold with the Keystone Drill; Part II, Authoritative Articles on Mineral Prospecting; and Part III, Mineral Prospecting Machinery.

PDF Reprint #4

166 Pages

Diamond Drilling for Gold and Other Minerals

This is a practical handbook on the use of modern diamond core drills in prospecting and exploiting mineral-bearing properties, including particulars of the cost of apparatus and of working.

PDF Reprint #5

181 Pages

The ABC of Mining

This is a handbook for prospectors treating fully of exploratory and preparatory work of the physical properties of ores, field geology, the occurrence and associations of minerals, methods of chemical analysis and assay, blow-pipe tests, promising indications, and simple methods of working valuable deposits, together with chapters on quartz and hydraulic mining and especial detailed information on placer mining, with an addenda on camp life and medical hints.

PDF Reprint #6

384 Pages

Prospecting Locating and Valuing Mines

This is a practical treatise for the use of prospectors, investors and mining men generally, with an account of the principal minerals and country rocks, and deposits, locations and patents, the early development of mines, earthly mineral products, coal, gold gravels and gravel mining, measurement of water and artesian wells.

PDF Reprint #7

267 Pages

Prospecting for Minerals

This is a practical handbook for prospectors, explorers, settlers, and all interested in the opening up and development of new lands.

PDF Reprint #8

388 Pages

Handbook of Mining Details

This book is a collection of articles that have appeared in the Engineering and Mining Journal under the general head of "Details of Practical Mining”, a department of the Journal that has been appreciated highly by its readers, many of whom have expressed the wish that a collection in book form be made, which has now been done.

PDF Reprint #9

622 Pages

Australian Mining and Metallurgy

This book accumulates information on various subjects connected with mining and metallurgy in Australia.

PDF Reprint #10

53 Pages

The Hydraulic Gold Miner's Manual

This book is intended to serve as a practical handbook of reference for the Hydraulic Miner. Sufficient data are given to enable anyone who has a competent knowledge of pick-and-shovel work, and of the use of carpenter's tools, to construct the necessary plant for successful Hydraulic Mining.

PDF Reprint #11

601 Pages

The Gold Hunters Adventures in Australia

PDF Reprint #12

314 Pages

The Miner's Right, A Tale of the Australian Goldfields

Vol. I

PDF Reprint #13

318 Pages

The Miner's Right, A Tale of the Australian Goldfields

Vol. II

PDF Reprint #14

353 Pages

The Miner's Right, A Tale of the Australian Goldfields

Vol. III

PDF Reprint #15

674 Pages

Economic mining

A Practical Handbook for the Miner, the Metallurgist & the Merchant

PDF Reprint #16

1259 Pages

Gold: Its Occurrence & Extraction

PDF Reprint #17

744 Pages

Gold:

Its Geological Occurrence & Geographical Distribution

PDF Reprint #18

211 Pages

Getting Gold

A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners, and Students

PDF Reprint #19

199 Pages

The Australian Continent and Tasmania Catalogue of
Works, Papers, Reports, and Maps on the
Geology, Paleontology, Mineralogy, Mining and Metallurgy

PDF Reprint #20

332 Pages

Opals and Agates

Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans

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