Prospecting and Mining - 9 eBooks On CD

Mining and Prospecting

9 Books

1. Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise For Prospectors, Miners and Students by J.C.F Johnson written 1896 (80 pages).  "The author's mining experience extends back thirty years and he therefore ventures to believe with some degree of confidence that the information, original or compiled, which the book contains, will be found both useful and profitable to those who are in any capacity interested in the gold-mining industry."

2. ABC of Mining: A Handbook For Prospectors  written by Charles Bramble in 1898 (180 pages), "A few simple tools and a not very deep knowledge of assaying, with an observant eye and a brain quick to deduce inferences from what that eye has seen, are the most valuable assets of a prospector. In time he will gain experience, and experience will teach him much that he could not learn in any college nor from any book."

3. Drilling For Placer Gold by the Keystone Driller Company, compiled by Walter Gardner (180 pages). "So closely has the Keystone Drill identified itself with the examination and calibration of auriferous gravels that its very name has grown into the jargon of the Engineer as a synonym of thorough and conscientious exploration. For the past twenty-five years have seen extensive areas of river gravels accepted for exploitation or cast into the discard on the strength of no other information than that revealed by the Keystone Drill in competent hands."

4. Handbook of Mining Details compiled from the Engineering Journals 1912 (389 pages). "This book is a collection of articles that have appeared in the Mining Journal during the last two or three years 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."

5. Prospecting for Minerals: A Practical Handbook, written by Herbert Cox in 1921 (270 pages). "The object of this volume is to give a sketch of those subjects which underlie the calling of the Prospector, without encroaching to any great extent upon the provinces
occupied by the sciences of Mineralogy and Geology, or the arts of Mining and Metallurgy, which are too far reaching to allow of more than the briefest mention in a work of this sort. It is evident, therefore, that the scope of the work must be necessarily limited, but it is hoped that to the practical Prospector it may give certain hints as regards the recognition of Minerals with which he is unacquainted, while, to the student, it may afford an introduction to the subject which will be of use in directing his work into the proper channels."

6. The Prospector's Handbook: A Guide For The Prospector and Traveller in Search of Metal-Bearing or Other Valuable Minerals by JW Anderson in 1911 (220 pages). "After traversing the mineral fields of New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Mexico, and Colorado, I feel fully convinced that some simple guide or handbook for the use of prospectors as well as travellers is a desideratum."

7.  Economic Mining: A Practical Handbook for the Miner, Metallurgist and the Merchant by CG Warnford Loch (670 pages). "As mining and metallurgy are industrial pursuits, followed with a view to financial gain, the economic aspect is quite as deserving of study as the highly controversial questions regarding the history of strata and the genesis of ore bodies, on which geologists will probably differ till doomsday.  Accepting the beds, and lodes, and veins as accomplished facts, this book endeavours to describe in plain language and with a practical aim how these deposits may best be worked under the various conditions encountered, and how the valuable portion of their contents can most cheaply and effectively be separated and prepared as marketable commodities."

8.  Australian Mining and Metallurgy by Donald Clark written in 1904 (600 pages). "In accumulating information on various subjects connected with mining, one may obtain a cinematographic picture of each yet actually accquire very little knowledge. It is the explanations given the data, figures and results which enables of to set forth the experience of other men."

9. Diamond drilling For Gold and Other Minerals by GA Denny written in 1900 (170 pages). "The rapid strides made in recent years in the perfecting of the Diamond Drill, and its now general use in prospecting for mineral and metalliferous deposits, have created a want in technical literature which it is the purpose of this work in some measure to fill."

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