PREFACE.
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.
CONTENTS. THE A B C OF MINING.
CHAPTER I. PROSPECTING.
CHAPTER II. HOW TO TEST FOR MINERALS.
CHAPTER III. BLOW-PIPE TESTS.
CHAPTER IV. ECONOMIC ORES AND MINERALS.
CHAPTER V. MINING.
CHAPTER VI. CAMP LIFE.
CHAPTER VII. SURVEYING.
CHAPTER VIII. FLOATING A COMPANY.
CHAPTER IX. MEDICAL HINTS.
CHAPTER X. DYNAMITE.
CHAPTER XI. ATOMIC WEIGHTS.
CHAPTER XII. ODDS AND ENDS.
GLOSSARY.
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 of Canada.
ILLUSTRATED.
Chicago and New York:
RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS.
Copyright, 1898, by Rand, McNally & Co.