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[i] NORTH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF MINING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. TRANSACTIONS VOL. XLVI. 1896-97. Edited by M. WALTON BROWN, Secretary. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Published by the Institute. Printed by Andrew Reid & Co., Limited, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1898. [All rights of publication or translation are reserved ] [ii] ADVERTIZEMENT. The Institute is not responsible, as a body, for the statements, facts, and opinions advanced in any of its publications. [iii] CONTENTS OF VOL. XLVI. Advertizement ii Contents iii GENERAL MEETINGS. 1896. Page Aug. 1.— Annual General Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 1 Election of Officers 1 Annual Report of the Council, 1895-96 3 Report of the Finance Committee 6 Accounts 8 Discussion 13 Representatives on the Council of The Federated Institution of 14 Mining Engineers "Further Experiments with Explosives." By Bergassessor 16 Winkhaus Discussion 33 Discussion upon the ''Report of the Proceedings of the Explosives 35 Committee " Oct. 10.— General Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 39 "The Danger of Employing Safety-fuzes for Blasting in Fiery 41 Mines." By Bergassessor F. Winkhaus Discussion 48 Discussion upon the ''Report of the Proceedings of the 51 Explosives Committee" "A Spring-coupling for Winding or Hauling-ropes." By H. W. 54 Hollis Discussion 56 "Notes on the Venterskroom Gold-fields, South African 58 Republic." By H. B. Bunkell Discussion 61 Oct. 10. - Students' Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 63 Discussion on Messrs. W. R. Bell and E. McGowan's Paper on 63 "Haulage at Wearmouth Colliery " Dec. 12.— General Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 67 Election of Vice-President 69 Representative on the Council of The Federated Institution of 69 Mining Engineers Discussion on Dr. Haldane's paper on " The Causes of Death in 69 Colliery Explosions" Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies of the 70 British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool, 1896 [iv] 1896. Page Dec. 12.— General Meeting.—Continued Discussion on Mr. W. Blakemore's paper on " Coal-cutting by 74 Machinery," and on Mr. T. B. A. Clarke's paper on "Electric Coal-cutting in Longwall Faces" "The Gold-fields of the Hauraki Peninsula, New Zealand." By 78 the Rev. Joseph Campbell Discussion 98 "The Education of Metallurgists." By Saville Shaw 104 Discussion 110 "Notes upon Gold-mining in Burma." By A. H. Bromly 122 "Note on the Tellurium Mineral of Choukpazat." By Henry Louis 129 Presentation of President's (Mr. T. Douglas) Student's Prize 130 1897 Jan. 30.— Students' Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 131 "Notes on Coal-mining." By Algernon Noble and Norman Nisbet 131 "Eccentric Haulage-clip." By John Brown 137 Feb. 13.— General Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 138 Portrait of the late Mr. Nicholas Wood 138 Revision of Bye-laws 139 Discussion upon the "Report of the Proceedings of the 140 Explosives Committee" Discussion on the Rev. J. Campbell's paper on "The Gold-fields 141 of the Hauraki Peninsula, New Zealand" Discussion upon Mr. A. H. Bromly's "Notes upon Gold-mining in 142 Burma" Discussion on Mr. Bryan Donkin's paper on "Powdered Coal for 144 Firing Steam-boilers" "Honigmann System of Boring and Sinking Shafts." By Th. 145 Lichtenberger Discussion 146 ''Notes upon Foreign Mining Laws and Adequate Areas for 150 Mining Concessions." By H. D. Hoskold April 10.— Special General Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 164 Alteration of Bye-laws 13 and 17 164 April 10.— General Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 165 Awards for Papers 165 "The Coal-industry of the South-eastern States of North 167 America." By Jeremiah Head Discussion 180 '' Notes on the Sinking of Two Shafts at Claravale Colliery, near 183 Wylam-upon-Tyne." By Frank R. Simpson April 10.— Students' Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 190 "Cornish Methods of Mine Timbering." By G. P. Chaplin 190 June 12.— General Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 201 "Shaw Gas-tester." By Dr. P. P. Bedson 204 Discussion 207 Discussion upon Mr. W. Galloway's paper on "A Compound 208 Winding-Engine" "The Mineral Resources of the Colony of Queensland." By 210 William Fryar, Inspector of Mines [v] 1897. Page June 12.— General Meeting.—Continued. "Notes on the Coal-seams of the Transvaal, and Description of a 226 Modern Pit-head Plant." By W. T. Hallimond Discussion upon Mr. Lichtenberger's paper on the "Honigmann 235 System of Boring and Sinking Shafts" June 12.— Students' Meeting (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 236 Discussion upon Messrs. Noble and Nisbet's "Notes on Coal- 236 mining" "Economical Combustion of Coal for Steam-raising Purposes" By 238 T.E. Parrington APPENDICES. I.—Notes of Papers on the Working of Mines, Metallurgy, etc., from the Transactions of Colonial and Foreign Societies and Colonial and Foreign Publications 1-102 "Coking Capacity of Coals." By Louis Campredon 1 "Removal of Silver and Gold from Sea-water by Muntz-metal Sheathing." By A. 2 Liversidge "The Amount of Gold and Silver in Sea-water." By A. Liversidge 2 "Kolar Gold-field, Mysore, India." By R. D. Oldham 2 " Prospecting for Magnetic Minerals by means of Magnetic Measurements." By 3 Juan Pie y Allué “Wetherill System of Magnetic Concentration." Anon. 4 "Furnace-residue from Idria Cinnabar Ore." By F. Janda 5 "Solubility of Lead and Bismuth in Zinc." By W. Spring and L. Romanoff 6 "Treatment of Ores by the Combined Salt and Hypo-sulphite Process at Kapnik 7 in Hungary." Anon. "Ore-concentration in the Butte District, Montana, U.S.A." By Charles W. Goodale 8 "Quinet Rotating Carrier-tube." By A. Godeaux 9 "Kreiss Ore-carrier." By C. Blömeke 9 “Simplon Tunnel." By G. Colombo 11 "Working a Thick Coal-seam at Arnao, Spain." By — Dach 12 "Köflach [Koeflach] Method of Working Coal-seams." By Hans Gutmann 13 "Working Thin Coal-seams." By F. Cambessédès 15 "Working Coal-seams without Inclined Planes." By J. Jicinsky 16 ''Effects of Working a Deep Seam of Coal under a Railway." By — Brière 17 "Brown Coal-mining of North-western Bohemia." By M. Remy zu Zabrze 17 "Monazite for Incandescent Gas-burners." Anon 17 "Naphtha Deposits in the Island of Tscheleken, Russia." By K. Charitschkow "Petroleum of Salt Creek, Wyoming, U.S.A." By W. C. Knight and E. E. 18 Slosson " Petroleum in Oran, Algeria." By Alfred Evrard 18 [vi] Appendices.—Continued. page. I.—Notes of Papers on the Working of Mines, Metallurgy, etc.— Continued. "Action of Aluminium Chloride on Petroleum Distillates: 20 Theory of Origin of Petroleum." By Fr. Heusler "Sulphur in Petroleum." By C. Engler . 21 "Occurrence of Platinum with Gold and Silver." By Dr. E. Priwoznik . 22 "Kaselousky System of Pumping." By Messrs. Griot and Rodde 24 "Pump-packing and Lubrication in Mines." By Eckley B. Coxe 25 "Stone Quarrying near Berlin." By Carl Stegl 26 "Cedar Valley Quarry, Iowa, U.S.A." By Samuel Calvin 28 "Separation of Silicates by Electrolysis." By— Mayençon 28 "Silver Extraction at Cerro Gordo, Iquique, Chili." By Hermann Schaefer 29 "Improvements in Shaft-sinking in Running Strata." By — Riemer 30 "Shaft-sinking through Quicksands at Loederburg." By— Huhn 30 ''Sinking and Lining a Shaft by the Badiou Method." By A. Gardon 31 "Simultaneous Sinking and Lining of a Mine-shaft." By Léon Thiriart 33 "The Sinking of the Vicq Pits, Anzin Collieries, by the Poetsch Freezing System." 34 By — Saclier and — Waymel "Widening and Re-tubbing an Air Shaft." By — Prud'homme 38 "Prevention of Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, etc." By V. Wenhart 38 "Precautions against Spontaneous Ignition of Coal at Sea." Anon. 39 "Sulphur-mining at Popocatepetl, Mexico." Anon 40 "Texan and other American Sulphur-deposits.'' Anon. 40 "Cyclotomic Transit-theodolite." Anon. 40 "The Preparation of Tellurium at Schemnitz." By J. Farbaky 41 "Increase of Temperature with Depth in the Earth's Crust: Charmoy and 42 Macholles Boreholes, France." By A. Michel Lévy "Method for Determining High Temperatures." By Prof J. Wiborgh 43 "Mining in Turkey." By Dr. W. May 44 "Theory of Turbines, Fans and Centrifugal Pumps." By A. Rateau 45 "Separate Ventilation in Fiery Pits." By J. Mayer 46 "Electrically-driven Fan at the Rammelter Air-shaft of the Gerhard Colliery, 47 Louisenthal." By — Althans "Appliances for Breathing in After-damp and the Walcher-Gärtner [Walcher- 49 Gaertner] Pneumatophore." By Dr. August Fillunger "Mortier Fan." By A. v. Ihering 50 "Calculating the Dimensions of a Single-inlet Guibal Fan." By Émile Gosseries 51 "Water Inundation at the Wurm Coal-field, and Underground Pumping Engines." 53 By Franz Büttgenbach [Buettengenbach] [vii] Appendices.—Continued. Page. I.—Notes of Papers on the Working of Mines, Metallurgy, etc.— Continued. "Umballa City Water-works." By C. E. Goument 54 "Compound Winding-engines in Idria." By C. Habermann 55 "New Winding Arrangement." By A. Després 56 "Winding-gear at Westphalian Collieries." By - Robiaud 57 "Counter for Winding-engines." By V. Mayer 58 "Wilmotte Cage-keeps or Props." By Louis Eloy 59 "Breakage of Winding-ropes." By K. Habermann 60 "Zinc-ore Deposits of Iserlohn, Westphalia." By L. Hoffmann 61 "The Reactions occurring in the Metallurgical Treatment of Blende." By E. Prost 62 "Cinnabar at Tripuhy, Brazil." By E. Hussak 63 "Powerful Explosive." By M. Matignon 64 " Analysis of Aluminium and its Alloys " :— (1) By F. Jean . 65 (2) By H. Gouthière 66 "Occurrence of Arsenic and other Minerals in the Coal-measures of Liége, 67 Belgium." By A. Jorissen " Asphalt-deposits at Lobsann (Alsace)." By Dr. Jasper 67 "Strength of Steam-boilers." By G. Walckenaer 68 "Economical Combustion in Boiler-furnaces." By Emile Laduron 69 "Mechanical Equivalent of Heat and Economical Use of Steam " : — (1) By V. Dwelshauvers-Dery 69 (2) By V. Dwelshauvers-Dery 70 "Coal-dust Firing." Anon. 71 "Smoke-consuming Apparatus, Suppressing Chimneys." Anon 72 "Liesens Hand-worked Rock-drill." By Os. Derclaye 72 "Fauck Method of Boring." By Albert Fauck 73 "Raky Method of Boring." By Martin Buhrbanck 73 "Length of Stroke of a Boring-rod." By W.