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BASED on the course of lectures delivered at the School of Mines of Colorado, Prof. Ihlseng's book, which is regarded in America as the best text-book on the subject, has been enlarged under the joint authorship of Mr. Wilson to include coal mining, which received scant attention in previous editions. Excepting that ore dressing and coal washing are not touched upon, it now covers much the same ground as Sir C. Le Neve Foster's “Elements of Mining and Quarrying.” The arrangement is, however, altogether different. The book is divided into-two parts, mining engineering and practical mining. The former deals with prospecting, preparatory work, methods of mining, power generation, hoisting machinery, electric generation and water power, hoisting machinery and underground conveyances, underground haulage systems, wire rope transmission, the compression of air, pumping, mine gases, ventilation, distribution of air, the illumination of mines, and accidents in mines.
A Manual of Mining.
By M. C. Ihlseng E. B. Wilson. Fourth edition. Pp. xvi + 723. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1905.) Price 21s. net.
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A Manual of Mining . Nature 72, 53–54 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072053c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072053c0
