Repository: UIHistories Project: Book - Pictorial Guide to College of Engineering (1919) [PAGE 21]

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MINING MACHINERY I N this laboratory drilling and blasting are studied, and experimental work is carried on in connection with the extraction of coal and ores. CHEMICAL ANALYSIS ROOM T H I S contains the usual desks for student work, gas furnaces for assay determinations, and complete equipment of calorimeters, photo meters, and similar instruments used in testing ores and coal.

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AUXILIARY TESTING MACHINERY

T H I S includes a magnetic ore separator, oil flotation machines, air jigs, and other special appliances for metallurgical analysis.

CORNER OF SAMPLING AND SAMPLE-GRINDING ROOM T H I S room contains complete apparatus for pulverizing and sampling coal or ore. This is a necessary process in connection with any testing of raw material. The room also contains an electrostatic ore separator shown at the right.

DEPARTMENT OF MINING ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF MINING ENGINEERING

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