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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK

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BY

S. HERBERT COX,

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PROFESSOR OF MINING AT THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES.

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE TO THE FIFTH EDITION.

THE Fourth Edition of this book was carefully corrected by the Author, and has been exhausted so rapidly that no further alterations are necessary for this edition.

August, 1908.

PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.

IT has not been deemed advisable to make any material alterations in the plan and scope of this work, so that, beyond careful revision and the addition of a few characteristic illustrations of important mineral deposits, the present edition is in much the same form as the previous

ones.

The criticisms of the press generally, and the kind expressions of personal approval of the book which the Author has received from numerous practical men, lead him to hope that he has succeeded in his endeavour to produce a handy and useful book for prospectors in all lands, so far as all the important minerals and ores, their recognition and their modes of occurrence, are concerned. S. HERBERT COX.

LONDON, January, 1903.