Abstract
THE sinking of deep shafts is a branch of mining of such an occasional nature that it is unusual to find anyone having experience of more than a few sinkings in one or two localities, or of the continued application of one and the same system in several fields, so that a specialist in this subject is not easy to find. In addition, it would be difficult to find a less attractive side of mining, or one more arduous, difficult, and troublesome; but it can also be very interesting, testing as it does the technical ability, tenacity, and ingenuity of the engineer in charge in the highest degree.
Vertical Shaft Sinking.
By Edward Otto Forster Brown. (Benn's Mining Series.) Pp. 432. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1927.) 52s. 6d. net.
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HABBERJAM, C. Deep Shafts and their Construction. Nature 122, 236–237 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122236a0
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