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Caption: Course Catalog - 1885
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46 University of Illinois. attachments; practical problems involving the running of surface lines and lines under ground; connecting of surface and underground surveys; practice of U. S. deputy surveyors. Details of mine surveys, setting of bench works; lines through shafts, drifts, slopes, etc.; keeping of records, plans, etc. Surveys required to determine best locations for test borings, shafts, adits, etc.; methods of reconnoitering. Mining Engineering.—1. Attack.—Tools, implements, machinery, and explosives, with principles governing their use. Methods of boring, sinking, and driving through hard, soft, wet, dry, loose, and compact material. 2. Timbering.—Objects, methods, etc.; framing, fitting, bracing. 3. Transportation.—Underground haulage, hoisting, use of chutes; apparatus and appliances, cars, tracks, switches, cables, cages, motive power, connections; haulage in inclines, "man-engines," etc. 4. Drainage.—Pumps, pumping, sumps, ditches; drainage of working shafts and inclines. 5. Ventilation.—Means and appliances. Importance of subject ; laws of various states and countries. Discussion of fundamental principles and practical applications, with results. 6. Buildings and Machinery.—Hoisting apparatus, air compressors, power drills, etc. 7. Exploration.—To determine general character and extent of deposits in advance of development; metho"ds and aims. 8. Development.—Blocking out of deposits to prove values of partly explored ground, and to prepare for further exploration. 9. Exploitation.—Laying out work ; trimming of coal, ore, etc.; stoping, overhand and underhand ; winzes and intermediate levels; economical handling of product. Methods to be employed under various conditions. 10. Dislocations.—Faults, upthrows, downthrows, feeders, leaders, rolls, swells, etc. Means of overcoming difficulties. Dressing of Products.—(Joal screening; washing, sampling, and grading ore; assorting, crushing, spalling, cobbing ; concentrating.
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