Excerpt from How to Speculate in Mines Being an Exposition of the Principles of Investment and Speculation: With Descriptions of Mine-Developments, and Principal Gold Fields and a Glossary of Mining Terms In the pages that follow. But during the many years I sat in the editorial chair of the M'uing Journal I learnt a great deal, and the fruits of that knowledge and experience I now offer to the acceptance of those whom they concern, and to whom I hope they will be of some benefit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.