The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Mining
Mining.
1. Breaking down rocks and useful minerals; tools employed in hard and soft ground, in metal and coal mines; various methods of blasting; tools and explosives employed; boring and cutting machines; fire-setting.
page 412. Opening of mineral deposits; shafts and adits.
3. Exploitation or the working away of mineral deposits.
4. Modes of securing excavations by timbering, masonry, and tubbing; construction of underground dams.
5. Transportation of mineral and rock along the underground roads, and hoisting or winding them up the shafts; machinery, appliances, safety-cages or parachutes, &c.
6. Modes of gaining access to underground workings.
7. Lighting underground workings; description of the most approved safety lamps.
8. Draining of mines of water; adits, pumps, pumping engines, water-pressure engines.
9. Ventilation of mines, its principles and modes of achievement; natural ventilation, artificial ventilation; various approved ventilators; distributon of air through the workings.
10. The mechanical preparation or dressing of ores; machines and appliances.