The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Mining Geology
Mining Geology.
1. Modes of occurrence of useful minerals; description of the various kinds of deposits of useful minerals; lodes or mineral veins; bedded deposits, seams or layers; irregular massive deposits—stocks and stock works; impregnations, &c.; theory of faults or heaves, and rules for searching for the faulted or lost portion of a deposit; review of certain theories and hypotheses regarding the mode of formation of mineral veins and other kinds of mineral deposits.
2. Prospecting for useful mineral deposits; shoading, trenching, costeaning; boring as practised with rods or rope, different apparatus and different cutting and clearing implements; the diamond drill.