Mines and Minerals of the British Empire

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Excerpt from Mines and Minerals of the British Empire: Being a Description of the Historical, Physical, & Industrial Features of the Principal Centres of Mineral Production in the British Dominions Beyond the Seas In the following pages, the author has endeavoured to present a brief, though comprehensive, review of those mines and minerals of the British Empire oversea, the industrial influence of which extends beyond their domestic sphere, and therefore entitles them to rank as factors of considerable moment in the mining world. So vast is the subject as a whole that in it there can be no specialists. So diverse are its bearings that no writer or reader can claim the qualification of full technical authority. The author's purport has been to deal with all the more salient industrial conditions obtaining in the mineral-producing sections of the Empire, and to describe the characteristics of ore occurrence and methods of exploitation in a form as lightly technical as is consistent with accuracy and lucidity of expression. To the mining reader it may appear that restriction of discussion to the British Empire forms an arbitrary limitation, possibly suggestive of Imperial glorification, that is inapposite. It must be recognized, however, that, although mineral deposits may be more aptly classified by natural than national distinctions, mining fields are closely linked by the bonds of mutual interests, of similar administrative influences, of frequently related technical controls, and of a common motherhood in the great Metropolis, whose financial offspring, hale and sick, are established abundantly throughout the colonial mining world. The bulk of this volume is based upon observations made and data collected during a tour of the Empire extending from January, 1906, to the beginning of 1908. 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.