Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Key for the Ready Determination of All the Useful Minerals Within the United StatesBy James Orton
Length2h 11m
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Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them is a practical yet wide-ranging nineteenth-century guide to the hidden wealth of the earth: metals, ores, gems, coal, petroleum, and other mineral resources. Written in a lucid, instructional style, it translates geological knowledge into usable advice for prospectors, students, and curious readers. The book belongs to the Victorian tradition of popular science, where observation, classification, and commercial possibility meet the expanding mineral frontiers of the age. James Orton (1830–1877) was an American naturalist, educator, and explorer, best known for his scientific travels in the Andes and the Amazon and for his work as a professor at Vassar College. His career joined field exploration with public instruction, and that combination helps explain the book's character: it is informed by geology, animated by firsthand habits of observation, and shaped by a desire to make scientific knowledge practically useful. This volume is recommended to readers interested in the history of geology, mining, exploration, and American popular science. Though not a modern technical manual, it remains valuable as a window into nineteenth-century methods of prospecting and the intellectual excitement surrounding the earth's buried resources.
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Length2 hrs 11 mins
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Publish dateNov 23, 2023
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Table of contents
1Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them (Annotated)
2620.— Chromic Iron.
2CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
2721.— Cinnabar.
3CHAPTER II. DIRECTIONS FOR DETERMINING SPECIMENS BY THE KEY.
2822.— Cobalt Pyrites.
4A.
2923.— Copper.
5B.
3024.— Copper Glance.
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6CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF USEFUL MINERALS.
3125.— Copper Nickel.
71.— Agate.
3226.— Copper Pyrites.
82.- Alum.
3327.— Diamond.
93.— Amethyst.
3428.— Emery.
104.— Anthracite.
3529.— Fluor Spar.
115.— Antimony Ore.
3630.— Franklinite.
126.— Asbestus.
3731.— Galena.
137.— Asphaltum.
3832.— Garnet.
148.— Azurite.
3933.— Gold.
159.— Baryta, or Heavy Spar.
4034.— Graphite.
1610.— Bituminous Coal.
4135.— Gray Copper Ore.
1711.— Blende.
4236.— Gypsum.
1812.— Bog Iron Ore.
4337.— Horn Silver.
1913.— Brittle Silver Ore.
4438.— Iron Pyrites.
2014.— Brown Coal.
4539.— Jasper.
2115.— Calamine.
4640.— Kaolin.
2216.— Cannel Coal.
4741.— Lenticular Iron Ore.
2317.— Carnelian.
4842.— Limonite, or Brown Hematite.
2418.— Celestine.
4943.— Magnetic Iron Ore.
2519.— Cerussite.
5044.— Magnetic Pyrites.
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