207 page book, supplied as a PDF document on CD-ROM.
A description and illustration of a chart of sections of the principal mines of coal and ironstone in the counties of Stafford, Salop, Warwick and Durham.
By Thomas Smith, Mine & Land Agent, Sandy Fields, near Sedgley.
CONTENTS:
Geological Sketch
South Staffordshire Mining District:
Extent & position of coal, heat, etc
Mining operations
Apparatus, water engines, etc
Brooch coal
Working with Ten Yard Coal
Ventilation of mines
Usual Mode, or Square Work
Lon Work described & recommended
Measures below the Thick Coal
Wages & Contracts
Condition of the Miners
Working of the Ironstone measures
Recapitulatory Tables, coal
Recapitulatory tables, ironstone
Mode of working the limestone
North Staffordshire Mining District:
General topographical description
Mode of working the coal measures
Table of Cost, Profit, etc
Mode of working the ironstone measures
Tables of produce, and cost of the ironstone measures
East Shropshire Mining District:
Topographical description
Mode of working the coal & ironstone measures
Table of costs, profits, etc
Warwickshire Coal Field:
General description
Mode of working
Long work recommended
Prices of work & other particulars
Lancashire Coal Field:
Statements of cost, etc
Northumberland & Durham Coal Field:
TABLE OF STRATIFICATION
Hetton Colliery, Durham
Wombridge Colliery, Salop
Staffordshire:
Apedale Colliery
Woodshut Colliery
Mossfield Colliery
Wolverhampton Colliery
Bilston Colliery (B. Bickley Esq)
Freezland Colliery
Bilston Colliery (___ Loxdale Esq)
Walsall Colliery
Deepfield Colliery
Moat Colliery
Coseley Colliery
Foxyards Colliery
Highfields Colliery
Wednesbury Colliery
Cosley Colliery (H. B. Whitehouse Esq)
West Bromwich Colliery
The results of a laborious experiment in boring
Warwickshire:
Hawkesbury Colliery
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