Shaft Sinking - 19 folding plates, c.1907

Shaft Sinking in Difficult Cases.

By J. Riemer; translated from the German by J. W. Brough. Pp. xii + 122; with a with 18 illustrations and 19 folding plates. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1907)

Maroon pressed cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Good condition, minor age related scuffs to cloth, library ref marks to spine, spine loose. Publishers trade terms tipped in. 

Contents : Part I- Shaft Sinking by Hand. 1. The Tomson system of raising water. 2. Shaft V. of the Aschersleben Soda Works. 3. Sinking the shafts at the Georgs-Marien-HUtte at Werne. 4. Sinking the Wilhelmshall shaft at Oelsburg. 5. Shaft II., Zollern I. mine. 6. Underhanging tubbing. 7. Further sinking of Shaft IT., Zollern I. mine. 8. Underhanging tubbing at the Emscher-Lippe mine. Part II- Shaft Sinking by Boring. 1. Introduction and general description. Description oF Several Examples of Bored Shafts. 2. The boring of the shaft at Jessenitz. 3. Boring the Adolf von Hansemann shafts.4. Shaft-boring at Kaiseroda. 5. Boring the Preussen II. and Scharnhorst s hafts. 6. Shaft sinking of the Benthe Company (Wallmont). 7. Sinking the new shaft of the Royal Wurttemberg Friedrichshall SaltWorks. 8. Sinking the Potash Salt Shaft of the Alexandershall Company at Berka on the Werra. 9. Sinking the Potash Salt Shaft at the Friedrich Franz Company, near Liibtheen,Mecklenburg. 10. Sinking the "Georg" Potash Shaft of the Grossherzog von S achsen Company. 11. Shaft-boring in the shaft of the Ronnenberg Alkali Works Company, Limited. 12. Boring and lining with tubbing at great depths. 13.Riemer's double tubbing. 14. Tubbing with divided rings without the aid of buoyancy. 15. Reliability of the boring process. 16. List of shafts sunk b y the Kind-Chaudron method. Part III- The Freezing Method. 1. Introduction and general description. 2. Limits to the freezing process. 3. Shaft sinking at the Hansa Silberberg Company at Empeldo, near Hanover. 4. Sinking Shaft VI. of the Anhalt Government Salt Mine at Leopoldshall-Stassfurt. 5. Sinking a shaft at the " Marie " Mine, near Atzendorf. 6. Consolidated Sophie Lignite Mine, near Wolmirsleben. 7. Shaft sinking at the Potash Salt Works, of the Ronnenberg Company, Hanover. 8. The shaft of the Vereinigungs Company in the Wurm district, near Kohlscheid. 9. Proposals with a view to improvements. 10. List of shafts sunk by the freezing process. Part IV The Sinking Drum Process. 1. Introduction and general description. 2. Probable explanation of the causes of cracked drums. 3. The Pattberg compound drum. 4. Sack borer, Sassenberg and Clermont system. 5. Pumping debris. 6. Pattberg boring process. 7. The Honigmann process. 8. Hugo I. shaft of the Gutehoffnungshutte. 9. Sterkrade of the Gutehffnoungshutte. 10. Hugo II. shaft of the Gutehoffnungshutte. 11. "Adolf " shaft, near Alsdorf, of the Eschweiler Mining Company. 12. The Sassenberg hydraulic pressure process. 13. New shaft ofthe Thiederhall Potash Salt Works Company. 14. Sinking the Shafts IV. and V. of the Rheinpreussen Colliery.