The Mineral Industry of New South Wales
Sydney: New South Wales Department of Mines, 1928. Small quarto, brown textured faux-leather cloth, spine and cover embossed with gilt lettering, [viii], 432 pp., frontispiece, illustrated with 40 plates of fold-out and single-page diagrams and 27 in-text diagrams in black and white. Spine ends and corners bumped and a little rubbed, spine and covers a touch worn, top and fore-edges of covers a little rubbed, foxing on endpapers and edges of text block, pale browning of leaves throughout as is common to publications of the period; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Issued under the direction of the Hon. F. A. Chaffey, H.D.A, M.L.A., Minister for Mines; edited by F. S. Mance, Under Secretary for Mines; printed by Alfred James Kent, Government Printer.
This comprehensive 1928 overview of the mineral industry of New South Wales followed a hugely successful similar volume by Edward F. Pittman, published in 1901. Pittman's work covered the minerals that were then prominent, namely gold, copper and tin. However, by the early 1920s, the mineral industry had expanded to such an extent that a new volume was in order.
The work of the then Government Geologist E. C. Andrews and other geological staff set out to cover not only gold, copper and tin, but lead, zinc and other non-metallic minerals as well. Their findings are presented here in detail and illustrated with numerous explanatory diagrams of mining processes and surveys of mining areas throughout the state. Item #4980
Written in blue ink on the front endpaper is: "Peter Taylor, 10 Melrose St, Homebush, 1955"
Price (AUD): $390.00