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Prospecting

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• Mines and mineral resources

• Mine examination

• Prospecting -- Alabama
• Prospecting -- Alaska
• Prospecting -- Geophysical methods
• Prospecting -- Juvenile fiction
• Mine surveying

• Exploration (Prospecting)

• Practical Guide for Prospectors and Small-Mine Operators in Montana (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Miscellaneous Contribution #13; 1955), by Koehler S. Stout (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flake-Graphite and Vanadium Investigation In Clay, Coosa, and Chilton Counties, Ala. (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #4366, 1948), by Hugh D. Pallister and John Roy Thoenen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook for the Alaskan Prospector (third printing, 1980), by Ernest N. Wolff, ed. by Richard H. Byrns (PDF with commentary at alaska.edu)

• Measurement of Blast-Induced Ground Vibrations and Seismograph Calibration (report of investigations #8506; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by Mark S. Stagg and Alvin J. Engler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imaging the Earth's Interior, by Jon F. Claerbout (PostScript files at Stanford)

• Theory of Seismic Imaging, by John Alan Scales (PDF and PostScript files at mines.edu)
• Imaging the Earth's Interior, by Jon F. Claerbout (PostScript files at Stanford)

• The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine (New York: Barse and Hopkins, 1917), by Ross Kay, illust. by Robert Emmett Owen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation (ca. 1912), by James Otis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Mine Surveying (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1913), by Edward B. Durham
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Flake-Graphite and Vanadium Investigation In Clay, Coosa, and Chilton Counties, Ala. (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #4366, 1948), by Hugh D. Pallister and John Roy Thoenen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Investigation of Red-Back Magnetite Mine, Sterling Lake, Orange County, N.Y. (1949), by W. T. Millar, H. O. Hammond, and Robert S. Sanford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bulletin (Geological Survey of Alabama) (partial serial archives)

• Handbook for the Alaskan Prospector (third printing, 1980), by Ernest N. Wolff, ed. by Richard H. Byrns (PDF with commentary at alaska.edu)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Travels in the Interior of Brazil, Principally Through the Northern Provinces, and the Gold and Diamond Districts, During the Years 1836-1841 (second edition; London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849), by George Gardner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• County Report (partial serial archives)
• California Gold (1933 magazine reprint), by James S. Brown (PDF with commentary at LOC)
• California Copy (Washington: Washington College Press, c1928), by Geo. F. Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of Hungryland: or, California Sketches, by W. S. Walker (HTML at LOC)
• The Resources of California, by John S. Hittell (page images at MOA)
• The Sunset Land, by John Todd (HTML at LOC)
• California '46 to '88 (San Francisco: The Bancroft Co., 1888), by Jacob Wright Harlan
  • PDF with commentary at loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California (1923), by Sim Moak (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Adventures of Col. L. A. Norton, by Lewis Adelbert Norton (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a '49er (Kansas City, MO: Hailman Printing Co., 1908), by Edward Washington McIlhany (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Dominion of Canada (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1869), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Metal Mining and the Environment (Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, c1999), by Travis Hudson, Frederick D. Fox, and Geoffrey S. Plumlee (PDF at agiweb.org)

• The Hidden Mine (originally published 1896), by Joseph A. Altsheler (HTML at woodwardworks.com)
• Murder in Space (Galaxy novel #23; New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1954), by David V. Reed, illust. by Ed Emshwiller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Lost Mine of the Mono: A Tale of the Sierra Nevada (New York: Cochrane Pub. Co., 1909), by Charles Herman Bruno Klette (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Soldiers of Fortune (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece page missing

• Bulletin (Geological Survey of Georgia) (partial serial archives)

• Tin Peaks and Silver Streams: A Memoir (1995), by Sheldon Wimpfen
  • HTML at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at bureauofmines.com

• Report on the Mines Known in the Eastern Division of Hayti, and the Facilities of Working Them (London: Printed for Ridgway, Booth, and Wilson, 1825), by William Walton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Explorations and Adventures in Honduras: Comprising Sketches of Travel in the Gold Regions of Olancho, and a Review of the History and General Resources of Central America (New York: Harper and Bros., 1857), by William V. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India (partial serial archives)

• Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana, Made During the Year 1869, by Indiana Geological Survey (illustrated HTML at Indiana)

• The University Geological Survey of Kansas (9 volumes; 1896-1908), by Kansas Geological Survey, contrib. by Erasmus Haworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Recollections, 1848-1931 (Santa Barbara, CA: Schauer Printing Studio, 1933), by Alexander Baring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mexico in 1827 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by H. G. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tin Peaks and Silver Streams: A Memoir (1995), by Sheldon Wimpfen
  • HTML at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at bureauofmines.com

• Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Report (full serial archives)

• Bulletin (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology) (partial serial archives)

• Bulletin (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology) (partial serial archives)
• Geology and Mining Series (University of Nevada) (partial serial archives)
• Guide to Virginia City, Nevada, and the Comstock Lode Area, Wherein Are Described Points of Interest in the History of Mining the Lode (Sausalito, CA: Pages of History, c1959), by Pages of History (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New Hampshire Mines and Minerals Localities (second edition; Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Museum, 1960), by Philip Morrill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir (New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources) (partial serial archives)

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