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This is another very popular TechnoMine site. Here you can find many interesting articles about the history of mining and mining-related activities, as well as historical information about minerals. Also take a look at our online edition of De Re Metallica, as well as the many links listed below.
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 A.P.Coleman - Professor and GeologistThursday, October 22, 2009Canadian geologist, professor, minerals prospector, artist, Rockies explorer, backwoods canoeist, world traveller, scientist, popular lecturer, museum administrator, memoirist. Coleman was one of Canada’s most beloved scientists. "Geology was at once his vocation, his avocation and his recreation." (J.B. Tyrrell) There was always another mountain to climb; rock, clay and glacial till to examine. read more » Exhibition Coal Mine Shows Work and Life of a MinerWednesday, August 26, 2009Anybody interested in expanding the use of "clean coal" as an energy source and all visitors to Beckley, West Virgina should make it a point to stop and visit the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine and the Youth Museum of Southern West Virginia. read more » The gold metallurgy of Isaac NewtonMonday, August 03, 2009The science of metals had always appealed to Isaac Newton and when, after the conclusion of his remarkable contributions to mathematics and physics, he was invited to take charge of the Royal Mint in London he was able not only to display his great gifts as an administrator but also to exercise his interest in metals and alloys and particularly in the metallurgy of gold. read more » Gold metallurgy in the Twelfth CenturyMonday, August 03, 2009The simple basic properties of gold – its colour, great malleability and ductility, and its immunity from oxidation even on melting – were well known in the ancient civilizations. In prehistoric times, in Egypt, Babylon and other lands of the Near East, the fabrication of gold articles was equally well understood, as the many brief references throughout the Old Testament establish. read more » California Gold Rush Thursday, July 23, 2009I. The Great Discovery - II. By Sea to the Golden Land - III. Ho for California! The Overland Trek IV. Via the Isthmus - V. Gold Mania Satirized - VI. The Miners' Ten Commandments VII.The World Rushed In: Part I, Part II - VIII. An Instant City: Sacramento - IX.The Northern Mines X. Scenes in the Life of the California Miner - XI. Making a Pile - XII. Mining Companies read more » |
 HistoryMine is pleased to present an online edition of De Re Metallica.
De Re Metallica is Georgius Agricola's best known work, originally published in 1556. The book examines mining and metallurgy in sixteenth-century Europe and the book had a large influence on geology, chemistry, mining and metallurgy for more than a century.
The tone of the work is very personal and the reader gets an immediate picture of the working lives of miners at that time. Several hundred large woodcuts add charm and genuine information.
In 1912 Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou published an English translation of the work which is presented here, minus the copious footnotes.
Lynn Kisilenko is a technical writer and editor who designed and created this e-book.
Click Here to Read the DeReMetallica E-Book »
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