Prospecting and Quarrying

The tests described in the preceding section are carried out in a muffle furnace and are only useful as a first step in quantifying the behavior of the raw material. Specifically, they are only good for fundamental work on prospecting new quarries. For the purpose of designing large... 

DuPont Works, built in 1909 at the village of DuPont, Washington, near Tacoma. It fronts Puget Sound for low-cost shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines and some west coast South American ports. The most important outlet of this plant has been, however, to the copper, silver and zinc mines of Idaho and Montana. Expls for quarrying, lumbering, land clearing and seismic prospecting, were also important items... 

Research for this book has spanned a period of thirty years since the day in July 1967 when I first stumbled upon the recently abandoned bulk of Monkton Farleigh quarry. In those far-off days when cold-war paranoia was at its peak, the prospect of gaining access to official archives concerning Corsham simply did not exist, but from the mid-1980s restrictions were gradually relaxed and since 19941 have been privileged with access to many new and exciting resources. 

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