Mining Lore: An Illustrated Composition and Documentary Compilation with Emphasis on the Spirit and History of MiningMorris Print. Company, 1970 - 940 pages An encyclopedic work of 940 pages, including 459 illustrations, among them rare and precious pictures, plus 1043 footnotes. A spiritual mine of breadth and depth with valuable information and knowledge - a document of toiling and moiling, going back to the very beginning of the mining profession, "a calling of peculiar dignity", as the "Father of Mineralogy", Georgius Agricola, expressed it. Besides great scholars and famous men, the "unknown miner," the unsung hero of mining, and simple mining workmen are remembered in the same degree of respect and appreciation. Many of the poets, laborers, musicians, pastors, engineers, painters, physicians, entrepreneurs, and "torch-bearers of mankind" were inspired by mining. As the Journal of the United Mine Workers of America, Washington, D.C., December 15, 1971, states in its review about MINING LORE...: "...The author, Wolfgang Paul... a mining engineer... takes the reader from prehistoric times to the present. ..." To this day the "spirit of mining", its rich traditions and cultural elements are generally unknown. Hence, this book has been published as a testimonial - an indispensable resource not only with respect to mining, but also to the humanities, religion, ethnography, anthropology and the arts in the broadest sense. The American mining engineer and jurist, Professor Koehler S. Stout, Chairman, Engineering Division, Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, Butte, Mt., sums it up this way, "MINING LORE..., a monumental document on miners' contribution to mankind, and, at the same time, 'a monument of personal achievement.'" |
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... coal , ' and reckon it among the things which one mines because of its usefulness . But these are substances which are to be regarded as earthy . Namely , they burn and can be ignited just as ( char- ) coal . One finds them in the ...
... coal , ' and reckon it among the things which one mines because of its usefulness . But these are substances which are to be regarded as earthy . Namely , they burn and can be ignited just as ( char- ) coal . One finds them in the ...
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... coal mine ( Hausham , Bavarian Alps , Germany ) , everybody should get acquainted with that , and think of the toil involved in mining every time before he puts coal into his stove . The reforms in the U.S. coal fields , as initiated by ...
... coal mine ( Hausham , Bavarian Alps , Germany ) , everybody should get acquainted with that , and think of the toil involved in mining every time before he puts coal into his stove . The reforms in the U.S. coal fields , as initiated by ...
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... coal miner . I know about his dreams and his ideals and trials and tribulations . I have lived with coal miners . I am one of them . My family has been associated with the mining industry for a century and a half and an understanding of ...
... coal miner . I know about his dreams and his ideals and trials and tribulations . I have lived with coal miners . I am one of them . My family has been associated with the mining industry for a century and a half and an understanding of ...
Contents
GEORGIUS AGRICOLA Physician Man of Science Father | 33 |
Agricolas De Re Metallica | 50 |
The Mining Town of St JoachimsthalThe Erzgebirge | 57 |
Copyright | |
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