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Title: Principles of Mining
Valuation, Organization and Administration

Author: Herbert C. Hoover

Release Date: September 24, 2008 [EBook #26697]

Language: English

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PRINCIPLES OF MINING

VALUATION, ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION

COPPER, GOLD, LEAD, SILVER, TIN AND ZINC

BY

HERBERT C. HOOVER

_Member American Institute of Mining Engineers, Mining and Metallurgical
Society of America, Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France, Fellow
Royal Geographical Society, etc._

First Edition

_FOURTH THOUSAND_

McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY

239 WEST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK

BOUVERIE STREET, LONDON, E.C.

1909

PREFACE.

This volume is a condensation of a series of lectures delivered
in part at Stanford and in part at Columbia Universities. It is
intended neither for those wholly ignorant of mining, nor for those
long experienced in the profession.

The bulk of the material presented is the common heritage of the
profession, and if any one may think there is insufficient reference
to previous writers, let h