Chapter I: Preface: To Second Edition

A steady demand for this work has shown that it fills a want, and serves the purpose for which it was written. In issuing this second edition, a few compositors' errors that had crept in, owing to the author being in a very remote region while the book was going through the press, have been corrected, but no material changes in the text were found desirable.

CONTENTS.

THE A B C OF MINING.

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Chapter I--Prospecting, 7

II--How to Test for Minerals, 38

III--Blow-Pipe Tests, 65

IV--Economic Ores and Minerals, 75

V--Mining, 100

VI--Camp Life, 143

VII--Surveying, 155

VIII--Floating a Company, 161

IX--Medical Hints, 165

X--Dynamite, 168

XI--Atomic Weights, 170

XII--Odds and Ends, 172

Glossary, 181

A B C OF MINING.