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Gold/Mining/Energy : Precious and Base Metal Investing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: grusum who wrote (27238)	1/19/2004 3:33:50 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 39344

It might sound facetious, but there is a root of seriousness in all my japes and jests, as well as a root of humour in all my deadly seriousness. In fact the happy medium between cosmic jest and mortal dread is frantically vacillated between in a hidden way in each and every word I right, to an absurd degree. In 1450 or there abouts a Germanic sort of fellow called Goegius Agricola wrote an advanced Illustrated book of practical science of mining, assaying and surveying called de Res Metallica, from whence Metallica Resources gets its name. It was written in Latin. A president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, and his wife, provided a translation to English. In the preface Agricola has an enjoinder to eschew all manner of superstition, and magic in evaluation of mineral deposits, and he also describes what the science of geology should be concerned with regard to volcanic emanations, and veins of "solidified juices" and practical mineralogy. You can learn a great deal from this book about practical mining. It should be interesting to note that the ancients drilled quite effectively with wooden drills using rock powder as an abrasive. Accurate land surveying techniques and panning to establish geochemical domains upon which to determine hidden veins beneath dozens of feet of cover, dating to Roman times are described in an enabling way. EC<:-}