Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Dredging of Gold Placers
During the past two years the writer has contributed to English and American periodi cals several articles, dealing with the phase of mining to which the following pages are devoted. Some interest appears to have been aroused among both mining men and the lay public by these articles, and the wish has often been expressed that they Should be incorporated in one volume. This book is an attempt to meet that desire. The industry is a comparatively new one, and the views of dredging men in regard to many questions, both of construction and design, are still in a state of ?ux. This book is offered to the world, therefore, not by any means as a technical work, but in the Sincere hope that it will help and interest company directors, property managers, prospectors, and those of the investing public who have acquired, or think of acquiring, a Share interest in a gold-dredging concern.
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