Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them

This short work was written primarily for the landowners, the farmers, the mechanics, the miners, and the laborers. It attempted to help them discover for themselves minerals and ores and thus develop the resources and establish the value of any particular farm or region. It is one of the most valuable works on mining engineering, metallurgy, and Mineralogy.

Contents include:

Introduction

Directions for Determining Specimens by the Key

Descriptive List of Useful Minerals

Prospecting for Diamonds, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead and Iron

Assay of Ores

Mineral Springs

Artificial Jewelry—How Made and How Detected

Discovery of Gold in California

Discovery of Silver in Nevada, and United States Gold and Silver Statistics