The miner's guide or, compleat miner. Containing, I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth, and by what Names Veins are distinguished, with a short Account of their Progress. II. The Customs, Laws and Articles of the High and Low-Peak, together with several private Liberties; the last Edition compared with the true Original Copies, and several Errors corrected. And all their Bills of Plaint, Customs, Cross-Bills, Arrests, Plaintiff's Cases, or Briefs; with all other Forms necessary for all Miners and Maintainers of Mines, within each Manour, Lordship, or Wapentake. III. An Account of the Load-Stone, with the first Invention of the Compass; to which is joined Houghton's Dialing and Levelling, illustrated with Variety of additional Examples. IV. Several curious and useful Tables, in most Branches in Mining, by Inspection; useful to both Masters, Overseers, and Others, concerned in the Mineral Way. V. A brief Account of the Assaying the two Metals, Lead and Copper. The whole interspers'd with Variety of curious Observations. By William Hardy

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Hardy, William
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Sheffield printed by Francis Lister 1748, [1748]
Subjects:	Mines And Mineral Resources / England / Derbyshire Mining Engineering / Early Works To 1800 Mining Law / England / Derbyshire
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0762500200?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa