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us to compile a list of persons who were then connected with our 
mining operations. From this it appears that 1,012,997 persons are 
engaged in the great order of workers in minerals. Of these 
248,284 are connected with coal pits; 32,041 are tin or copper 
miners, 18,552 are lead miners, 20,626 iron miners, 7,502 are 
indefinitely described as miners, 2,502 are described as secretaries 
and servants of mining companies. 
Women are still employed at coal works, chiefly at the pit’s 
mouth, their number being 3,768. We learn also that 142,170 males 
are employed on stone and slate quarries and in clay works; and 
2,120 in the salt works of the kingdom. The workers in the metals 
we exclude from our notice, since these are too extensive, and they are 
not, in all cases, sufficiently defined. 
With this large number of people employed, and producing, as 
they do annually, mineral wealth to the value of 30,000,0001, sterling, 
it is astonishing that no effective system of education has taken root 
in this country, which can be regarded as possessing the requisites of 
mining schools. There must be some strange prejudices lurking in 
the popular mind, or this state of things would cease to be. 
The English language is poor in technological literature of any 
kind, and poorest of all in its literature relating to mines, minerals, 
and metallurgy. This arises from the circumstance that we are a 
working, and not a writing, people. There are but two weekly 
journals of any note devoted to mining, these are ‘The Mining 
Journal,’ and ‘ The Colliery Guardian, and there is one small monthly 
magazine, ‘The Mining and Smelting Magazine.’ These are the only 
representatives of our very important industries. If anyone inquires 
for a work on British Mining, we are compelled to confess that there 
is no such book in the English language. 
In the German and the French languages there are many periodi- 
cals devoted to mines and metallurgy, and to these we must be 
indebted for much of our information. The best papers indeed, on 
several metalliferous mining processes, as carried forward in this 
country, are those of M. Moisenet, which were published in the 
‘Annales des Mines.’* Many valuable papers on our mines and 
mining machinery, and many of the highest character on the manu- 
facture of iron, are to be found in the ‘Revue Universelle des 
Mines, &e.t It is not a pleasant thing to acknowledge our poverty, 
but it is satisfactory to know that our several industries are of 
sufficient importance to demand the attention of such journalists as 
those who conduct the two works which we have named. In the 
‘Revue Universelle’ occurs an admirable paper by M. 8. Jordan, on 
the mines and metallurgical industries of France. From this we 
learn that the consumption of coal in France amounts to 15,800,000 
tons, while the production is only 9,400,000 tons, yet this is an 
* ¢ Anneles des Mines; ou Recueil de Mémoires sur l'Exploitation des Mines, 
et sur les Sciences et les Arts qui s’y rapportent.’ Paris: Dunod 
+ ‘Revue Universelle des Mines, de la Métallurgie, des Travaux publics, des 
Sciences et des Arts appliqués & l Industrie.’ Sous la Direction de M. Ch. De 
Cuyper. Paris et Lictge: Noblet et Baudry. 
