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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... kind is also to be found at Altenberg in Silesia , with little differences , and one extracts gold and silver therefrom . Our people call also this type Kies . A38 Nae . Please , show us this while descending ! Ber : With pleasure . But ...
... kind is also to be found at Altenberg in Silesia , with little differences , and one extracts gold and silver therefrom . Our people call also this type Kies . A38 Nae . Please , show us this while descending ! Ber : With pleasure . But ...
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... kind which Bermann has mentioned . Ber . No ; in my opinion , the first kind has also a similarity to copper in so far as it is massive , save certain differences of colors . One strikes light from it also , wherefore one cannot reject ...
... kind which Bermann has mentioned . Ber . No ; in my opinion , the first kind has also a similarity to copper in so far as it is massive , save certain differences of colors . One strikes light from it also , wherefore one cannot reject ...
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... kind , and this is white , as you can see . Nae . I had regarded it as a ( mountain ) crystal . Ber . Here is a fourth kind which is yellow , a fifth kind which is ash - gray and a sixth kind which is rather black . A92 Anc .: Well ...
... kind , and this is white , as you can see . Nae . I had regarded it as a ( mountain ) crystal . Ber . Here is a fourth kind which is yellow , a fifth kind which is ash - gray and a sixth kind which is rather black . A92 Anc .: Well ...
Contents
GEORGIUS AGRICOLA Physician Man of Science Father | 33 |
Agricolas De Re Metallica | 50 |
The Mining Town of St JoachimsthalThe Erzgebirge | 57 |
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