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PRECEDED by an inspiring foreword by Dr. J. D. Falconer, the main body of the text of the work which is at present under review consists of an introduction and ten chapters dealing, amongst other matters, with the classification, lithology, provenance and association of alluvial and allied deposits and minerals; theories of transport and accumulation; prospecting methods;. geophysical aids; field work; the report; and laboratory methods. The book in its aim and scope stands alone. It represents a determined effort to raise alluvial prospecting to the status proper to the initial operations of a branch of the world's second most important basic industry mining.
Alluvial Prospecting: the Technical Investigation of Economic Alluvial Minerals.
By Dr. C. Raeburn Henry B. Milner. Pp. xix + 478 + 32 plates. (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co.; London: T. Murby and Co., 1927.) 36s. net.
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ARMSTRONG, F. Alluvial Prospecting: the Technical Investigation of Economic Alluvial Minerals . Nature 122, 764–765 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122764a0
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