Mining Lore

 

An Illustrated Composition and Documentary Compilation With Emphasis on the Spirit and History of Mining, Memorial Edition, an encyclopedic volume of 940-pages, which includes 1,000 footnotes, and 459 illustrations, among them rare and precious pictures. The author deals with mining-related historical occurrences and subjects and calls attention to the great contributions the mining profession has made to civilization at large throughout thousands of years. In so doing, he reveals significantly the "spirit of mining" - the very special air or pneuma, the whole atmosphere, the peculiarities, the breadth and depth, the characteristic philosophy of mining - an uncommon melody of inspiration - as well as the miner's way, or mood, the "Bergart", as Pastor Mathesius of St. Joachimsthal, the venerable pioneer of mining engineering, expresses it.

This extensive work covers a broad field of human endeavor, compromising numerous observations, illustrations, excerpts and translations. Beside great scholars and famous men, the "unknown miner," the unsung hero of mining, and simple mining workmen are remembered in the same degreee 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 this work reveals.

Map-making, the developments of the steam engine, locomotive, railroad engineering, the Pullman (sleeping car) and the first modern British canal as well as the forerunner of social security were inspired by mining. Mining has greatly contributed to the arts through paintings, drawings, sculpturing, wood-carving, church-architecture, music, literature, story-telling, poetry and fairy tales. (The dwarves with their high-pointed hoods pictured in fairy tales are nothing less than little miners of the Medieval Ages!) Men of mining played a decisive role in the development of the alphabet which makes this communication possible. ...In fact, Mining Lore is an essential supplementary reference book for a truly comprehensive understanding of mining, as also the Society of Mining Engineers of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers has well recognized. See its official publication, MINING ENGINEERING, July, 1969.

940 pages, 459 Photos, Wood Cuts, Drawings, Many of Them Quite Rare, 1,000 footnotes, plus 100 separate annotations.

 

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