A Practical Manual of Minerals, Mines, and Mining: Comprising Suggestions as to the Localitites and Associations of All the Useful Minerals, Full Descriptions of the Most Effective Methods for Both the Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Each of These Minerals, and Hints Upon the Vaious Operations of Mining, Including Architecture and Construction |
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