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The Prospector's Fieldbook and Guide in the search for ... Minerals. Illustrated, etc

OSBORN, Henry Stafford. · 1892 · H. C. Baird & Co. · 32 pictures

A practical handbook for prospectors by Henry Stafford Osborn, published in Philadelphia by H. C. Baird & Co. in 1892, teaching miners and surveyors how to read ground for ore. The plates are line diagrams: cross-sections of hillsides with hatched and ruled rock beds, dotted survey triangles lettered A to K, and numbered figure captions, useful as geometric ground for technical or geological layouts.

British Library · HMNTS 7106.ff.13. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain) · More from this library