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.
BY
CHARLES A. BRAMBLE, D.L.S.,
Late of the Editorial Staff of "The Engineering and Mining Journal,"
and formerly a Crown Lands and Mineral Surveyor
for the Dominion ofCanada.
ILLUSTRATED.
Chicago and New York:
RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS.
Copyright, 1898, by Rand, McNally & Co.
Owing to recent rich discoveries in more than one mining field,hundreds of shrewd, intelligent men without experience in prospectingare turning their attention to that arduous pursuit—to such this bookis offered as a safe guide.
A complex subject has been treated as simply as its nature permitted,and when a scientific term could not be avoided, the explanation inthe glossary has been offered.
CHARLES A. BRAMBLE, D.L.S.
A steady demand for this work has shown that it fills a want, andserves the purpose for which it was written. In issuing this secondedition, a few compositors' errors that had crept in, owing to theauthor being in a very remote region while the book was going throughthe press, have been corrected, but no material changes in the textwere found desirable.
| PAGE | ||
| Chapter I | —Prospecting, | 7 |
| II | —How to Test for Minerals, | 38 |
| III | —Blow-Pipe Tests, | 65 |
| IV | —Economic Ores and Minerals, | 75 |
| V | —Mining, | 100 |
| VI | —Camp Life, | 143 |
| VII | —Surveying, | 155 |
| VIII | —Floating a Company, | 161 |
| IX | —Medical Hints, | 165 |
| X | —Dynamite, | 168 |
| XI | —Atomic Weights, | 170 |