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Caption: Course Catalog - 1886-1887
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Mining Engineering. 57 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. Dislocations.—Faults, upthrows, downthrows, feeders, leaders, rolls, swells, etc. Means of overcoming difficulties. Dressing of Products.—Coal screening and washing; sampling and grading ore; assorting, crushing, spalling, cobbing; concentrating. Mining Machinery.—Elements of construction, designing of plant, combination of parts; setting, arranging, adjusting. Preservation and operation, general economy. Organization.—Economy of management. Secondary superintendence; division of labor and adjustment of responsibility. Prevention of accidents. Administration.— Review of principles. System of reports from sub-officers and tabulation of records. Accounts, forms, analysis, pay-rolls, cost sheets, etc. Letting and measuring contracts. Miscellaneous details. Engineering Geologi/.—Applications of geology to engineering and mining. Nature and distribution of deposits of economic value, as COHI, water, metalic ores, etc.; advanced structural geology and lithology; discussion of principles underlying successful working of mines, placing of foundations, setting of machinery and erection of structures in various situations, Relation of geological structure to drainage, economy of working, selection of points of attack, methods of exploration, etc. APPARATUS. The department has a valuable collection of models of mining and metallurgical machinery, and new material will be added as fast as the development of the school will require, and the funds furnished will permit. The extensive apparatus and collections in other departments are available, and these comprise a large amount of material which is useful for this purpose. 8
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