Mining Engineers Handbook

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Preface

The first edition of this book was published early in 1918. In preparing the second edition, issued in 1927, many changes in subject matter were found necessary, as set forth in the preface to that edition, and references to them need not be repeated here. Most of these alterations were called for by the progressive modifications of mining methods and appliances, and the development of new methods. Much new matter was added, some of the older text omitted, and some sections of the book were almost entirely rewritten.

Rewriting the present edition made necessary the radi(!al revision of text and illustrations of Sections 3, 4, fi, 8, 10, lOA, 12, 14, 15, 16, 22, 24, 26, 27, 32, 33, 35 and 40, together with minor changes in many other parts of the book.

Especial attention is (tailed to the following: (a) important new matter throughout Section 10, on further changes in practice in “Methods of Mining,’' by James F. McClelland, Vice President of Phelps Dodge Corp; (5) new articles 24 to 28 of renumbered Section 45; (c) a valuable new Section 44, on “Petroleum Production,” by S. F. Shaw, has been added; (d) the marked advance of “Geophysical Prospecting” during the past decade has made advisable the addition of an entirely new Section lOA, on that subject, by Frederick W. Lee, of the U. S. Geological Survey. This Section replaces, in greatly expanded form, the data formerly contained in Articles 3 and 4 of Section 10; (c) Section 14, on “Mine Ventilation,” has been almost rewritten by George K. McElroy, of the U. S. Bureau of Minos; (/) radical revisions have also l)een made in Section 12, “Hoisting Plant, Shaft Pockets and Ore Bins,” by Professor Philip B. Bucky, of the (’olumbia School of Mines, and of Section 15, “C/ompressed Air Practice,” by A. W. Loomis, of the Ingersoll-Rand Co; (g) the wide development of methods and devices for underground handling and conveying of mineral has led to the transfer of most of the data, formerly in Article 92 of Section 10, to Section 27, the first part of which has been rewritten and expanded by Walter M. Dake, Research Manager of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. The preparation of this edition has further required resetting the entire book. A larger format was necessary, since the two volumes of the Third Edition are Nos VI and Vll of the new Wiley Enginooring Handbook Series. This change, together with the extensive revisions of text already referred to, has consumed much more time and labor than were required for the second edition.

To the list of deaths of the original Associate Editors, noted in the preface to the second edition, the following names must now be added: Edwin S. Jarrett (Sec. 8), F. Ernest Brackett (Sec. 14), Richard T, Dana (Sec. 15) T. R. Woodbridge (Sec. 29), E. J. Hall (Sec. 30), and Charles H. Burnside (Sec. 36).

For various reasons, a number of associate editors of the second edition were unable to serve again. Their places have been taken by: Clinton L. Bogert (Sec. 3), Samuel R. Russell (Sec. 5), Charles Jackson (Sec. 6), Ralph H. Chambers (Sec. 8), Philip B. Bucky (Sec. 12), George E. McElroy (Sec. 14), A. W. Loomis (Sec. 15), Walter M. Dake (Sec. 27), J. B. Morrow and staff (part I of Sec. 35), and Theodore Baumcister, Jr. (Sec. 40). For further information as to these accessions to the list of Associate Editors, see the Table of Contents.

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the efficient collaboration of my friend John A. Church, in connection with this new edition. Besides being the Associate Editor of Section 7, on “Shaft Sinking in Rock,” he has done a large amount of work in revising manuscripts, as received from the contributors to the book, and in the preparation of illustrations for the engraver.

TOC

SECTION 1. MINERALOGY
SECTION 2. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS
SECTION 3. EARTH EXCAVATION
SECTION 4. EXPLOSIVES
SECTION 6. ROCK EXCAVATION
SECTION 6. TUNNELING
SECTION 7. SHAFT SINKING IN ROCK
SECTION 8. SHAFT SINKING IN UNSTABLE AND WATERBEARING GROUND
SECTION 10. PROSPECTING, DEVELOPMENT, AND EXPLOITATION OF MINERAL DEPOSITS
SECTION 10-A. GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING
SECTION 11. UNDERGROUND TRANSPORT
SECTION 12. HOISTING PLANT. SHAFT POCKETS, AND ORE BINS
SECTION 13. DRAINAGE OF MINES
SECTION 14. MINE VENTILATION