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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Synopsis of the Classes in the School of Mines
Synopsis of the Classes in the School of Mines.
Mathematics.
First Year.—Euclid: Six books, with geometrical exercises. Algebra: To the binomial theorem. Trigonometry: To the solution of plane triangles, including the use of logarithms. Text-books: Todhunter's Euclid, Colenso's Algebra, and Colenso's Trigonometry.
Second Year.—Algebra and trigonometry: An extended course. Elementary mechanics and hydrostatics. Textbooks: Todhunter's Algebra, Todhunter's Trigonometry, Goodwin's Statics, Goodwin's Dynamics, and Besant's Hydrostatics.
Physical Geology.
The composition and formation of rocks; the structure of rock masses; metamorphism; form and internal condition of the earth; movements of the surface; earthquakes; volcanoes; denudation; physiography; results of palæontology; chronological classification of rocks; former changes of climate.
Palæontology.
Processes of fossilization; zoological and botanical characters of the more important extinct animals and plants; historical palæontology; principles of the distribution of animals.
Natural History.
The morphology of the classes and orders of the animal kingdom; the principles of taxonomy.
This course includes practical work in comparative anatomy and histology.
Theoretical and Technological Chemistry.
| (a.) | The general principles of chemical notation, combination, and nomenclature. |
| (b.) | The classification of the elements, and the principles of the leading chemical theories, |
| (c.) | The description of the more important elements, and organic and inorganic compounds. |
| (d.) | The chemistry of the metals. |
| (e.) | The general chemistry of animal and vegetable organisms. |
| (f.) | Chemical physics, including the chemical relations of light, heat, and electricity. Text-book: Fownes' Manual. |
Qualitative Analysis.
This course is conducted in the Chemical Laboratory. Practical instruction is given to the students in classes. It is devoted to the qualitative analysis of simple, compound, and complex salts, soils, water, metallic ores, and other minerals.
Text-books: Fresenius' Qualitative Analysis, Thorpe's Qualitative Analysis.
Quantitative Analysis.
This course is conducted in the Chemical Laboratory. Practical instruction is given to the student in the methods of determining the percentage compositions of soils, rocks, fuel, clays, water, the ash of plants, salts; also of metallic ores, limestones, coal, and other minerals.
Text-books: Fresenius' Quantitative Analysis, Thorpe's Quantitative Analysis.
Metallurgy.
| (a.) | Fuel, furnaces, crucibles, retorts, fluxes.
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| (b.) | Extraction of metals from their ores, |
| (c.) | Physical and chemical properties of the metals. |
| (d.) | Industrial applications of the metals. |
Assaying.
Instruction will be given to students in the Assay Laboratory or Furnace-room. It will be devoted to the most approved and useful methods of assaying—both by the dry and wet processes—metallic ores, such as gold, silver, platinum, bismuth, the compounds of copper, lead, tin, antimony, zinc, iron, nickel, cobalt, mercury, &c.; also the dry and wet assay of bullion.
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.
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.
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2. 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.
Mineralogy.
1. Cyrstallography; systems of crystallization; laws determining modification of crystals; compound crystals; pseudomorphous crystals; description and use of goniometers.
2. Physical properties of minerals, discussed as far as essential to recognition and practical distinction of the various mineral species.
3. Chemical composition of minerals.
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4. Classification and description of the more important species and varieties of minerals; their modes of occurrence, association, and geographical distribution, with special consideration of those that are of economic value, as ores, in jewellery, and in the coarser arts, or of interest in a geological or physical point of view.
These lectures will be illustrated by specimens intended for close inspection.
Text-book: E. S. Dana's Text-book of Mineralogy.
Scientific Use of the Blowpipe and Deter Minative Mineralogy.
Instruction in the use of the blowpipe; reactions of elements, oxides and acids; determination of artificial inorganic compounds, to be succeeded by that of important metallic and earthy minerals, with aid of their crystalline form and physical properties. Experienced students, on providing themselves with the necessary apparatus, will also receive instruction in executing assays for gold, silver, lead, copper, nickel, cobalt, &c., by means of the blowpipe.
Text-books: Guide to the Determination of Minerals by means of the Blowpipe, by Dr. Fuchs, translated from the German by T. W. Dauby, M.A.; Manual of Determinative Mineralogy, by Professor Brush; Plattner's Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blowpipe, translated by Professor H. B. Cornwall.
Petrography.
Description of the characters of the rocks composing the earth's crust. Discussion of the different systems of classification proposed for the igneous, aqueous, and metamorphic rocks. Various methods for determination of the chemical and mineralogical constitution and minute structure of rocks, with special consideration and illustration of the use of the microscope in the examination of thin sections. Preparation and mounting of thin sections.
These lectures will be illustrated by specimens intended for close inspection.
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