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Historic Volumes of Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute

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Catalog of the Lake Superior Mining Institute Meetings and Proceedings, Lansing or Ishpeming, Michigan / These volumes are well illustrated with numerous pictures and/or fold-out plates for the various papers presented at the meetings; all are in excellent condition except for several minor noted exceptions


1893 Inaugural Meeting and Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute, pb, 29 pages, includes several papers: Soft Ore mining of Lake Superior; The Geology of that portion of the Menominee Range, East of the Menominee River with fold-out plates including one of the Pewabic Mine, - 5 -, $ 25

1893 Inaugural Meeting and Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute, as above except bound in an afb, - 3 -, $ 35

1894 Second Annual Meeting of the Lake Superior Mining Institute which included papers on the Calumet and Hecla Mine, the Hecla Engine Plant, the Tamarack Mine, the Quincy Mine, Smelting Works, Stamp Mills, pb, 11 pages, 3 fold-outs with a blue background so they resemble blue prints, - 5 -, $ 40

1895 Third Annual Meeting of the Lake Superior Mining Institute where a paper was presented by L. L. Hubbard, “The Relation of the Vein at the Central Mine, Keweenaw Point, to the Kearsage Conglomerate,” pb, 10 pages, with 4 fold out maps of the Central Mine showing its levels, shafts, etc., afb, - 2 -, $ 50


Volume 13, 1908, Mesabi and Vermillion Ranges, cl, 256 pages, - 3 -, $ 75  Contents include: Mine Waters; Hydroelectric Plant of the Penn Iron Mining Company, Vulcan, Michigan; Automatic Throttle Closing Device for Hoisting Machinery; Structures of the Mesabi Iron Ore; Acetylene as an underground light; The Standard Boiler House of the Oliver Iron Mining Company; Sampling of Iron Ores, more...

Volume 15, 1910, Gogebic Range, cl, 222 pages, - 3 -, $ 85  Contents include: Underground steel construction; A diamond drill core section of the Mesabi Rocks; Proper Detonation of High Explosives; Underground Methods of Mining used in the Gogebic Range; Steel Head Frame No. 4 Shaft, Montreal Mine, more...

Volume 16, 1911, Menominee Range, Michigan, 265 pages, - 3 -, $ 85  Contents include: diamond drill core section of the Mesabi Rocks; Time keeping system, Crystal Falls Iron Company; Practical suggestions for diamond drill exploration; Standard boiler house and coal handling system of the Crystal Falls Iron Company; Recording and signaling device for mines; Surveying and sampling diamond drill holes; Square set mining at the Vulcan Mines; Some safety devices of the Oliver Iron Mining Company; Diversion of the Sturgeon River at the Loretto Mine; Raising shaft on Timber in hard rock at the Armenia Mine; Block caving and sub-stoping system at the Tobin Mine; The Cornwall, Pennsylvania, magnetite deposits; Top slicing at the Caspian Mine; Reminiscences of the Gogebic Range, Ironwood in 1887, more...

Volume 18, 1913, Missabe Range, 245 pages, - 3 -, $ 100  Contents include: Sanitation for mine locations; Winona stamp-mill; Safety in the mines of the Lake Superior Iron Ranges; Relining No. 2 Hamilton Shaft with reinforced dividers, end plates, and poured concrete walls; Suggestions on the application of efficiency methods to mining; Concentrating at the Madrid Mine; Mining methods of the Missable Iron Range; Wash ores of Western Missabe Range and the Coleraine Concentrating Plant; Opening the Leonidas Mine at Eveleth, Minnesota; The new change house at Vulcan Mine, this volume includes an appendix with 63 additional pages on the Duluth and Minnesota Iron Ranges, more....

Volume 20, 1915, Gogebic - Cuyuna Ranges, cl, 226 pages, - 5 -, $ 85  Contents include: Sinking of the Woodbury Shaft at the Newport Mine, Ironwood, Michigan; Mining methods on the Gogebic Range; New Stockpile Trestle, Colby Iron Mining Company, Bessemer, Michigan; Grouting at the Francis Mine Shaft of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company; Sheet Ground Mining in the Joplin District, Missouri; The opening of the Wakefield Mine; The use of Gunite in a steel shaft and in an underground pump-house on the Gogebic Range; A survey of the developments and operations in the Cuyuna Ore District of Minnesota; Some aspects of exploration and drilling on the Cuyuna Range; Rock Drifting in the Morris-Lloyd Mine, the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, more....

Volume 21, 1916-1917, Menominee Range, cl, 313 pages, - 3 -, $ 85  Contents include: Mining methods on the Menominee Iron Range; Methods of mining at the Chapin Mine; The block-caving system used at the Pewabic Mine; Method of mining at the Lovetto Mine; Mining methods in the Iron River District of Michigan; Method of opening and mining the Davidson No. 2 Mine; Sub-stoping method of mining as used at the Chatham Mine; Mining methods in Crystal Falls, Amasa and Florence Districts; Sub-stoping at the Amasa-Porter Mine; Mining methods in the Florence District; Mining methods used at the Bristol Mine - Crystal Falls, Michigan; more...

Volume 22, 1922, Michigan Copper District, cl, 242 pages, - 3 -, $ 75  Contents include: Co-operative effort in the study of mining methods; Compound-Steam Hoist installation of the Quincy Mining Company; Handling underground waste rock through underground skip dump, Quincy Mining Company; Development and extraction methods for the Lake Superior Copper Deposits; Recent practice in the use of scrapers on sub-levels; Mining methods of the Copper Range Company, Houghton County, Michigan; Mechanical ventilation at the Lake Mine, Spies open-stope system of mining; Building reinforced-concrete shaft houses, more...slight spotting to boards, contents fine

Bulletin for the 1922 meeting with most of the papers listed immediately above without the complete proceedings of the meeting, afb, 85 pages, - 3 -, $ 30

Volume 23-34, 1923-1925, Minnesota Ranges / Marquette Range, cl, 585 pages, - 5 -, $ 125 Contents include: Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting in metal mines; Recent Developments in the Geology of the Gogebic Range; Surface Equipment for Iron Mines; Slushing Practice in the mines of the Oliver Mining Company; Wear and care of Wire Rope; Brief History of the Cuyana Range; Developments of the Use of Cuyuna Range Manganiferous Iron Ores; Future of the Lake Superior District; Calumet and Hecla Reclamation Plant; Stratigraphy and Correlation of the Cuyuna Iron Ore District, Minnesota; Moffat Tunnel Progress, Colorado; Present Scraping Progress at the Cliffs Shaft Mine; Principles of mine fan installation; Lake Superior Geosyncline; Advances in geological information relative to the Lake Superior Iron Deposits; Michigan Iron Mining Industry; Iron Ranges of Northwestern Ontario; Marquette Iron Ore Range; Ontario and Quebec Gold Fields; Forestry and the mining industry in the Lake Superior Region; Exploration for Iron Ore in the Lake Superior District; more....partial leather binding, hinges weak (with repairs), protective tape over spine, wear on corners of boards, ovg

Volume 25, 1926, Gogebic Range, cl, 291 pages, - 3 -, $ 85
Contents include: Gogebic Iron Ore Range; Shaft sinking at the Eureka Mine; Notes on mining the North Palms Orebody; Montreal Mining Company’s No. 5 Shaft surface layout; Gogebic Range Mines of the Oliver Iron Mining Company; the New Cascade Tunnel for the Great Northern Railway; Mining methods of Castile Mining Company; Method of mining at the Montreal Mine; Sub-level practice a the Newport Mine; Drifting at Odgers and Tobin Mines; Transportation of Lake Superior Iron Ores from mines to furnaces; more...

Volume 26, 1928, Menominee Range, cl, 324 pages, - 3 -, $ 75
Contents include: description of Menominee Range Mines and ore shipments to 1927; Method of Sub-level Stoping at the Carpenter Mine, Crystal Falls; Rapid Method for Determining Sulphur in Iron Ores; Geophysical Methods applied to Exploration and Geophysical Methods applied to Exploration and Geologic Mapping in the Michigan Copper District; the “Speed Drift” at the Eureka Mine - Rapid Mucking with Slusher Hoists; Rapid Drifting as a Regular Practice; Recent Developments in Methods of Mining in the Michigan Iron Mines; Timbering Practice in the Michigan Iron Mines; Scraping Practice in the Michigan Iron Mines, more... slight wrinkling to the bottom edges of some pages, ovg

Program of the 1929 Copper County meeting, pb, 16 pages, including a paper entitled “Historical Sketch of the Lake Superior Copper District” which includes a fold-out map of the Keweenaw Peninsula, - 3 -, $ 40

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