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Excerpt from Economic Mining: A Practical Handbook for the Miner, the Metallurgist and the Merchant To promote condensation and facility of reference, and to avoid repetition, those operations which are common to all mining and metallurgy are first described in general and comprehensive terms, and as far as possible in natural sequence. Next, the non-metalliferous minerals are taken in alphabetic order, a chapter being devoted to each, and embracing all the available practical information respecting their occurrence, working, extraction, preparation, qualities, uses, valuation, and commerce, with details of special processes and machinery employed. Similar treatment is given to the metals and their ores in their turn, not omitting the metallurgical operations necessary for separating allied metals from each other. Obviously, in the preparation of such a volume it is impossible to be independent of the experiences of others, and therefore originality is to be looked for less in the facts recorded than in the method of marshalling them, the one aim and object of the book being Practical Utility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.