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Mining. 
The purpose of the lectures on the Art of Mining is to impress 
on students the principles which should form the basis of the 
various operations of the miner, and to make them acquainted 
with examples of mining practice, as conducted under different 
circumstances in this and other countries. 
The course will include the following heads : — 
I. Detailed discussion of known facts connected with the de- 
posits of the useful minerals ; beds, strata, or seams ; stream- 
works ; lodes or mineral veins ; flats ; pipe-veins ; stock-works > 
irregular masses; heaves or dislocations, and rules for searching 
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for the dislocated and lost portion of a deposit. 
II. Preliminary research, shoading, trenching, costeaning. 
III. Boring, as practised with different apparatus, with rods or 
rope, with various cutting and clearing implements. 
IV. Tools employed in mining, in hard and in soft ground ; in 
collieries and in metallic mines ; blasting by various methods. 
V. Principles of employment of mining labour. 
YI. Modes of gaining access to, and lighting subterraneous 
cavitie s, including a comparison of the various safety lamps. 
VII. Levels and shafts, or the main openings to underground 
works ; driving and sinking. 
VIII. Means of securing excavations by timbering, masonry, 
and tubbing ; construction of dams. 
IX. Exploitation, or the working away of veins and of strata. 
X. Carriage or transport of minerals through the underground 
roads. 
XI. Winding or raising in the shafts, with the machinery and 
apparatus required. 
XII. Pumps and pumping engines. 
XIII. Ventilation, its principles and practice; natural venti- 
lation ; artificial introduction of a moving power ; distribution of 
air through the workings. 
XIY. The mechanical preparation or dressing of ores. 
In the final examination in this subject, regard will be had 
to the proficiency of the student in mechanical drawing. 
Metallurgy. 
The course of instruction in Metallurgy consists of lectures 
and laboratory practice. 
