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The Business of Mining / A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines

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This practical, nontechnical exposition surveys the principles and business of mineral extraction and investment, opening with definitions and historical background before moving through prospecting methods, claim law, placer and open-pit techniques, mine openings, types of ore bodies, and considerations of depth and grade. It treats valuation, promotion, incorporation and capitalization, equipment and management, mine accounting, metal pricing, and stock investment, and concludes with remarks on personnel and miscellaneous operational concerns. Technical topics are explained in plain language and supported by examples and illustrations to assist prospective operators, investors, and managers in understanding the economic and organizational factors that determine profitable mine operation.

INDEX

Accidents, 104
Adit, advantages of, 97, 100, 101, 104
Adit, defined, 95
Ajax mine, 200
Alaska, 8, 44, 67, 123
Amortization, 151
Anaconda mine, 44, 119
Arizona, 77
Australia, 26, 125

Bancroft, Geo., 160
Bankets, 116
Bassick mine, 112
Batea, 64
Bingham Cañon Dist., 73
Black Hills, 33, 74
Blanket vein, 111
Brazil placers, 8, 67
Buried placers, 61
Butte District, 44, 183

Cages, 102
California mining, 26, 31, 42, 61, 67
Camp Bird mine, 33, 121
Canadian mining claims, 54, 55
Capitalization, 140, 216
Charleton, A. G., 16
Chimneys, 112
Churn drilling, 65
Climatic influences, 83
Coal mining, 20, 23
Coal washing, 17
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., 183
Colorado lode claims, 52
Comstock lode, 43, 91, 99
Concentration, 13, 156
Consulting engineer, 165
Copper mining, 24, 43, 73
Copper, price of, 175
Cornwall, 25, 122
Cost of patenting claims, 58
Cradle, 64
Cripple Creek District, 91, 109, 112, 125, 193, 196, 200, 214
Crosscuts, 96
Custom treatment, 210

Dead work, 79
Dikes, 108
Directors' functions, 163
Dividends of N. Amer. mines, 216
Dry placers, 71

Egypt, 22
Ely District, 74
Esperanza mine, 125
Examination of mines, 130, 191
Exploitation, 79, 166
Extralateral rights, 53

Failures in mining, 190

Gash veins, 111
Gangue, 118
Giants, 68
Gold, price of, 170
Gold production, 30 to 38
Golden Fleece, explained, 24
Grab samples, 167
Greece, mining in, 25, 122

High-grading, 126, 195
Homestake mine, 33, 123
Hoover, H. C., 162
Hydraulicking, 68, 70

Inclines, 95, 100
Incorporation, 140
Iron ore prices, 176

Joplin District, 13, 91

Kansas coal mining, 5
Kemp, Jas. F., 18
Kentucky lead mining, 8, 85
Keweenaw Peninsula, 116
Kimberly diamond mines, 43, 112, 127

Labor considerations, 84, 85
Lead, prices of, 178
Leadville, 44, 114, 150, 201, 205
Leasing, 195
Leonard, P. A., 186
Life of a mine, 92, 150
Lode defined, 51, 109, 110
Long tom, 65
Low-grade mining, 122, 200

Machinery, 89, 154
Management, 162
Mass, defined, 113
Metallurgy, 14
Mexico, 34, 43, 125
Mexican mining claims, 55
Milling, 14
Mine accounts, 179
Mine, definition of, 4, 8, 20
Mine promotion, 134, 139, 146, 186
Mine reports, 168
Miner's licenses and certificates, 55
Miner's pan, 64
Mine sampling, 130, 167
Mine timbers, 188
Mining, defined, 20, 80
Mining engineer's functions, 164, 191
Mining plants, 105, 154, 155, 157, 160
Minnesota iron ranges, 6, 42, 72, 127
Monitors, 68
Mount Morgan mine, 6, 73

Nevada Cons. Copper Co., 6, 74
New Zealand, 61
Nickel mining, 34, 43
Nickel, price of, 174

Ore defined, 18, 19
Ore deposition, 117
Ore dressing, 14, 16
Ore in sight, 131
Ore reserves, 131
Oroya-Brownhill mine, 125
Open pit mining, 72
Ophir, location, 24

Pertinencia, 56
Placer dredging, 66, 153
Placer defined, 60
Placering, 14
Platinum mining, 33
Platinum, price of, 172
Political considerations, 87
Porphyry mines, 76
Portland mine, 182, 200
Prospecting, 39
Prospects, 148
Prospect drilling, 65
Prospectuses, 186, 188

Quicksilver mining, 43
Quicksilver, price of, 178

Reddington mine, 43
Reddington, P. G., 198
Reefs, 116
Richard, R. H., 15
Rickard, T. A., 127
Riffles, 68
Robinson mine, 128
Rocker, 64
Roosevelt tunnel, 196

San Juan Region, 33, 99, 153
Secondary enrichment, 119
Secrecy in operations, 183
Shafts, 94, 98, 100
Silver, price of, 172
Silver production, 36
Skips, 102
Slope, defined, 95
Sluices, 68, 69
Sorting, 14
South Africa, 24, 33, 35, 128, 149
Spain, 122
Spurr, J. E., 120
Steam shovelling, 7, 72
Stock, defined, 112
Stratton's Independence mine, 194, 200
Stripping, 75
Sudbury district, 43
Supplies, mine, 87, 88
Surveyor-General offices, 58
Sutro tunnel, 99

Tin, price of, 173
Title to property, 81
Tonopah district, 13, 150
Topographical considerations, 82, 99
Transportation considerations, 82, 194
Transvaal, 13, 91
Treadwell mine, 44, 123
Treasury stock, 144
Treatment monopolies, 210, 214
Tungsten, price of, 174
Tunnel, defined, 94

Unionism, 85
United Verde mine, 182
U. S. Bureau of Mines, 28
U. S. coal claims, 47, 48
U. S. Forestry service, 197
U. S. lode claims, 46, 51
U. S. mineral output, 32 to 37
U. S. mineral surveyors, 56, 58
U. S. placer claims, 49
U. S. Postal Dept., 138, 189
Utah Copper Co., 6, 73

Van Hise, C. R., 115
Vein, defined, 107

Wallace, J. P., 150
Wallaroo mine, 43
Wasp No. 2 mine, 74
Wildcatting, 137, 193
Williams, Percy, 191

Zinc, price of, 177