Cleland, E. Davenport

West Australian Mining Practice, A Description of the Mining Methods followed by the Principal Gold Mines of Western Australia

Kalgoorlie: The Chamber of Mines of Western Australia, 1911. 4to, original green cloth boards with gilt titles, folding plates, folding map (Kalgoorlie map in colour), b&w photographs and diagrams, pp xvi, 268. Very slight rubbing to edges, pencilled previous owner's signature, offsetting endpapers, near-fine condn.

Includes shaft sinking and timbering, shaft plats, ore chutes and passes, stopes and stoping, signalling methods, ventilation and sanitation, and underground water and drainage. Scarce. Item #92538

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