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Action, ice 10
—of running water 10
—sea 10
—transportive 10
Air 61
—crossings 71
—currents, production of 70
—distribution of 71
Amygdule 12
Andesite 12
Anemometer 71
Anthracomya 22
Anthracosia 22
Arches, brick 51
Atmosphere 10
—homogeneous 61
—irrespirable 61
Augite 11

Bar Machine 42
Barometer 61
Basalt 12
Bedding 20
Boring 30
—machine 90
Brattice 71
Breccia 13
Brickwork 31, 51
Briquettes 120

Cages 110
Calamites 22
Calcite 11
Calcspar 11
Carbon, dioxide 61
—monoxide 62
Chain machine 42
Chocks 50
Cleaner 90
Coal 10, 13
—cutting machines 41
—distribution and use 130
—dust 80
—measures 20
—washers 120
Cogs 50
Coking 120
Combustion, spontaneous 80
Conglomerate 13
Contracts 130
Conveyors 42
—Allardice 42
—Summerlee 42
—Thompson 42
Coral reefs 10

Debris handling the 31
Detonators 91
Diabase 12
Diamond drilling 30
Diatoms 10
Dip 20, 30
Disc machine 42
Dolerite 12
Dyke 21

Earth’s internal temperature 10
Earthworm 10
Explosions, prevention of dust 80
Explosives 90
—high 90, 91
—order 91

False bedding 20
Fans 70
Faults 20
Felspar 11
Ferns 22
Firedamp 61, 62
—how to test for 62
Flame 62
Folding 20
Folds, anticlinal 20
—synclinal 20
Fossils 22
Fuse 91

Gabbro 12
Gas caps 62
Geography 10
Geology 10
Geological change 10
Glaciers 10
Gneiss 13
Granite 12
Guides 111
Gunpowder 90

Hade 20
Hammers 90
Hardness test 11
Haulage 91
—direct 92
—endless rope 92
—main and tail rope 92
—roads, accidents on 92
Headgear 111
Hornblende 11
Hydrosphere 10
Hygrometer 61

Ice action 10
Igneous rocks 11
Imperial defence 130
Inclines self-acting 92
Irruptions of water 80

Jiggers 120
Jig-planes 92
Joints 20

Koepe System of Winding 111

Lamps, safety 62
Landslides 10
Laws of ventilation 71
Legislation 140
Lepidodendron 22
Limestone 13
Line of strike 20
Lithosphere 10
Locked coil ropes 110
Longwall workings 40

Magnetite 11
Main roads, position of 40
Mall 90
Marble 13
Markets 130
Marsh gas 61
Masonry 51
Metamorphism 12, 13
Mica 11
—schist 13
Mine, explosions 61, 80
—gases 61
Minerals 11
—identification of 11
—rock-forming 11
—secondary 11
Moraines 10

Neuropteris 22

Obsidian 12
Oilshale 22
Olivine 11
Organic remans 22
Orthoceras 22
Overlap 21

Peat 13
Perched blocks 10
Peridotite 12
Picking belts 120
Picks 90
Pillar and stall 41
Pipes 100
Pitchstone 12
Porcellanite 13
Power in air current 71
Pricker 90
Productus 22
Props 50
Pumping 100
Pumps, bucket 100
—plunger 100
—three-throw 100
—turbine 100

Quartz 11

Rails 91
Refrigerator, Carre's 31
Rhyolite 12
Rocks 10
—arenaceous 12
—argillaceous 12
—calcareous 12
—carbonaceous 12
—igneous 11
—metamorphic 12
—plutonic 12
—stratified 11, 12
Rolls 21
Roof, pressure 50
—testing of 51
Ropes, flattened strand 110
—storage and use of 110
Rotary, screen 120
—boring 30

Safety hooks 110
Sand dunes 10
Sandstone 13
—calciferous 20
Shaft, pillar 40
—sinking 30
Shaking screen 120
Shale 13
Shot firing 50
Sigillaria 22
Sills 22
Siphons 100
Slate 13
Specific gravity 11
Sphenopteris 22
Sprag 50
Stells 50
Stemmer 90
Stigmaria 22
Stoppings 71
Strata, conformable 20
—unconformable 20
Stratified rocks 20
Strike 20
Sulphuretted hydrogen 62
Swellies 21
Syenite 12

Timber, classes of 51
—preservatives 51
Timbering 50, 51
Tippler 120
Trachyte 12
Track 91
Travertine 13
Tubbing 31
Tubs 91

Ventilation currents, measurement of 70

Wash-out faults 21
Water, acid 100
—gauge 70
—in mines 100
—ring 31
Weathering 10
Wedges 90
Whiting system of winding 111
Winding, drums 111
—engines 111
—water 100
Wire ropes 110

 

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