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A TEXT-BOOK OF COAL-MINING:
_FOR THE USE OF COLLIERY MANAGERS AND OTHERS ENGAGED IN COAL-MINING._
BY
HERBERT WILLIAM HUGHES, F.G.S.,
Assoc. Royal School of Mines, General Manager of Sandwell Park Colliery.
GENERAL CONTENTS.
Geology.--Search for Coal.--Breaking Ground.--Sinking.--Preliminary
Operations.--Methods of Working.--Haulage.--Winding.--Pumping.--
Ventilation.--Lighting.--Works at Surface.--Preparation of Coal for
Market.--INDEX.
"Quite THE BEST book of its kind ... as PRACTICAL in aim as a book can
be ... The illustrations are EXCELLENT."--_Athen?um_.
"We cordially recommend the work."--_Colliery Guardian_.
"Will soon come to be regarded as the STANDARD WORK of its
kind."--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._
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TENTH EDITION, Revised and Enlarged. With Numerous Diagrams.
Cloth, 7s. 6d.
~A TREATISE ON MINE-SURVEYING:
For the use of Managers of Mines and Collieries, Students at the Royal
School of Mines, &c.~
By BENNETT H. BROUGH, F.G.S., ASSOC.R.S.M.,
Formerly Instructor of Mine-Surveying, Royal School of Mines.
GENERAL CONTENTS.--General Explanations.--Measurement of
Distances.--Miner's Dial.--Variation of the
Magnetic-Needle.--Surveying.--German Dial.--Theodolite.--Traversing
Underground.--Surface-Surveys.
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