1903 Transactions of American Institute of Mining Engineers Coal Gold Alasaka

Book Title - Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers Volume XXXIV Volume 34

Containing The Papers and Discussions of 1903

Book Author - Many authors

Book Publisher / Year / Page count - New York City: Published By The Institute, at the office of the secretary 1904 / 1029 pages

Book Condition - Boards are rubbed at leather with edge wear but interior is sharp and clean. Boards are OK but not perfect - some rubbed leather and egdes at front side spine side are a little cracked with top of spine having damage - interior is clean. Top edge slightly dusted not affecting interior. Pages are sharp and clean. Plates are all perfect. A few small name stamps to just a few page margins of original owner - again, quite small, few and minor.

Book Content - Far too many illustrations to list. These volumes are a gold mine of turn of the century industrial mining information and are filled with articles and illustrations / plates.

Just a few of the plates are - frontis is of Abram S. Hewitt?, Many superb plates for article on Hudson River Water Power Company including many pages of photographs of Cofferdam etc.., many plates for water hoisting in Pennsylvania Anthracite Region including dumping tank at William Penn Colliery, Susquehanna Coal Company tank, great plates for oldest known form of transit-theodolite principle, great photographs of Douglas Island showing works of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company also map and great fold-out map of works, details of battery frame at treadwell mines / 3 pages of photographs of interior at treadwell plant, great plates of induction motors from power transmission for mines article, plates and photographs of experimental breaker at Auchincloss Colliery, photographs for the Bisbee Arizona article, plates, maps and photographs for Cartersville District article, cross section of longitudinal section of the Loomis-pettibone Gas Producer at Nacozari, photos of iron furnace at Yu Hsien China, -- many more / massive volume. 

Here is a list of a few articles in this volume.

Albany Annual Meeting February 1903

New York Meeting October 1903

The Ore Deposits of Sudbury Ontario By Charles W Dickson

Genesis of the Sudbury Ores

Operations of the Hudson River Water Power Company By Charles E Par

A Study of the Influences

Application of Electricity in the Anthracite Coal Field of Pennsylvania with

The Determination of Power for Rolling Iron and Steel By Louis Katona

The Condition and Action of Carbon in Iron and Steel By Herbert E Field

The Sperry Vanning Buddle By Edwin A Sperry Discussion p 980

The Metallurgy of the Homestake Ore By C W Merrill Discussion p 983

The Cyanide Plant and Practice at the Ymir Mine West Kootenay British

HearthArea and the Number of Tuyeres in Iron BlastFurnace Practice

The Geology and the Copper Deposits of Bisbee Arizona By F L Ransome

Water Hoisting in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region By B V Norris

The Cost of Pumping at the Short Mountain Colliery of the Lykens Valley Coal

Electrical Apparatus for CoalMiuiug By W B Clarke Discussion p 928

Conipressed Air Motors for Gathering Cars in Coal Mines By Beverley

Note on the Influence of the Rate of Cooling on the Structure of Steel

Notes on Accidents Due to Combustion within AirCompressors By Albert

Electrolytic Lead Refining By Anson G Betts

A Test for Precious Metals in Cyanide Solutions By Albert Arents

Effect of Fineness of Grain on the Fusibility of Clay By Heinrich Ries Dis

Notes on the New Jersey FireBrick Industry By Heinrich Ries

Note Concerning an Old Instrument for Finding Distances Exhibiting the Old

The Treadwell Group of Mines Douglas Islaud Alaska By Robert A Kinzie

The Reduction of Lead from Litharge in Preliminary Assays and the Advan

Tests of Steel for Electric Conductivity With Special Reference to Conductor

Biographical Notice of William Earl Dodge By James Douglas

Relative Elimination of Impurities in Bessemerizing CopperMatte By

An Example of the Alteration of Fire Brick by Furnace Gases By Frank

Some Practical Suggestions Concerning the Genesis of OreDeposits By

The Garnet Formations of the Chillagoe Copper Field North Queensland Aus

A Free Milling Gold Bun By Robert H Richards

Electrical PowerTransmission for Mines By Francis O Blackwell

The Yellow Ocher Deposits of the Cartersville District Bartow County Georgia

Notes on ContactMetamorphic Deposits in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Biographical Notice of Theodore D Rand By Thomas M Drown

Investigations in Thermal Chemistry Showing Atomic HeatValency By Hal

Osmosis as a Factor in Ore Formation By Halbert Powers Gillette

Biographical Notice of J Peter Lesley By Benjamin Smith Lyman

Biographical Notice of John F Blandy By R W Raymond

The Power Plant of the Moctezunia Copper Company at Nacozari Sonora Mexico

The GoldMining Districts of Central Siberia By Lewis Blanchard Brown

Mineral Resources of British India By Sarat C Rudra

Biographical Notice of Arthur L Collins By Benjamin B Lawrence

Notes on the Coal and IronFields of Southeastern Shansi China By Wil

The Box Electric RockDrill By Fbank E Shepabd

CopperOre and Garnet in Association By William P Blake

Of Mr Liudgreus Paper on the Geological Features of the Gold Production

Of Mr Clarkes Paper on Electrical Apparatus for CoalMining see p 134

Of Dr Ledouxs Paper on Notes on Accidents Due to Combustion Within Air

Of Mr Riess Paper on the Effect of Fineness of Grain on the Fusibility

Of Mr Lodges Paper on the Assay of ZincBox Residues from the Cyanide Pro

Of Mr Prichards Paper on Observations on Mother Lode Gold Deposits Cali

Of Mr Fields Paper on the Condition and Action of Carbon in Iron

About the publisher - The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) is a professional body for mining and metallurgy, with 90,000 members. It was founded in 1871 by 22 mining engineers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States, being one of the first national engineering societies in the country. Its charter is to "advance and disseminate, through the programs of the Member Societies, knowledge of engineering and the arts and sciences involved in the production and use of minerals, metals, energy sources and materials for the benefit of humankind." It is the original parent organization of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME), The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Still known by the original name American Institute of Mining Engineers it had a membership at the beginning of 1915 of over 5,000 made up of honorary, elected, and associate members. The annual meeting of the institute was held in February, with other meetings during the year as authorized by the council. The institute published three volumes of Transactions annually and a monthly Bulletin which appeared on the first of each month. The headquarters of the institute was in the Engineering Building in New York City.