The Business of Mining / A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines

Utah Copper Company's Open Pit Mine, Bingham, Utah. This Mountain is Copper Ore.

CONSULTING AND GENERAL MINING ENGINEER; WESTERN EDITOR, MINES AND MINERALS ; FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MINING, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES; MEMBER, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS; MEMBER, COLORADO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY
WITH 16 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS AND ONE CHART

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY J. B. LIPPENCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHED JULY 1912
PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.



There is probably no line of human activity that is not beset with malicious and ignorant intruders. The fact that any occupation or business is really legitimate seems often to stimulate the operations of these disreputable persons.