A Text-Book of Mining Geology for the Use of Mining Students and Miners (Classic Reprint)

Mining Geology has been regarded as of sufficient importance to warrant its elevation to the dignity of a distinct department in theM ining Schools and Colleges of English-speaking communities. For long enough it was treated as a subordinate subject, being taught for the most part as an introduction to the principles of mining, at a time in his academic career when the young undergraduate, possessing no personal experience of ore-bodies as they occur inN ature, was least able to grasp the true bearing of the subject in its relation to the economics of the mining industry. In the mining academies of Continental Europe, economic geology has always occupied a prominent and respected place. The matter in the following pages comprises a series of lectures issued in Bulletin form at the end of 1902. The exhaustion of that little publication has encouraged the author to present the same matter in this revised and enlarged form. The new chapters onO res and Minerals Considered Economically, Mine-S ampling andO re-V aluation, and The Examination and Valuation of Mines have been added to comply with the requirements of the new curriculum for the associate-diplomas in Mining, Metallurgy, and Geology. The genesis of ore-deposits is a subject surrounded by many perplexing problems. The chief difficulty encountered by the teacher is that the generalisations have not yet been crystallised in forms sufficiently definite to be universally accepted as first principles.
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