 | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...address Harper 6 Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. * FIRST EDITION...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |  | | Book | | information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...latter-day prospectors poked around abandoned gold and silver mines seeking dust or nuggets. Often they found |  | | Journal (volume) | | A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas...Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer San Francisco Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Los Angeles...Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS Page DISTRICT REPORTS...REPORTS OF MINING ENGINEERS—— 7 Redding Field District 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San Francisco |  | | Book | | sands) Engineering geology, rock and soil mechanics, mining Weathering of natural and artificial stone structures...archaeology, geography, metallurgical industry, mining, the oil industry, the chemical industry, ceramics...THE MEDITERRANEAN AND TH E ORIENT Egypt: gold; silver; emeralds; lapis lazuli; various kinds of stone... APPLIED MINERALOGY 4 Greece (around 500 B.c.): silver mines of Laurion. Theophrastus (about 300 B.c.):...transitional types (after C. W. Coi:rens}. • GENERAL MINE RALOGY 17 be induced in an intrinsically-neutral |
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