Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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"The processes of assaying are detailed with great clearness." --Popular Science Monthly, July, 1883. "It is just such a book as is needed to assist those who are, by actual work, developing the gold and silver mines of the country." --Chicago Tribune, March 31, 1883. "The author has faithfully endeavored to carry out his idea of a plain, practical work. No one will be a loser who possesses ...." --Mining and Scientific Press\ San Francisco, Aug. 18, 1883. "Has endeavored, we may add, with marked success, to prepare a work on assaying " --Engineering and Mining Journal, April 28, 1883. "The book will form an excellent elementary guide to the important art of assaying." --Chemical News, London, June 8, 1883. "Mr. Brown has succeeded in providing a valuable assistant for the student, the miner, and the assayer." --Mining Review, March 29, 1883. "This handy volume appears to contain sufficient information in the art of assaying to entitle it to the claim of being a manual of instruction to beginners.' --Scientific American, July 14, 1883. "There is probably no other book in the English language that so fully meets the wants of those for whom it was made as this manual." --Journal of Education, Boston, Sept. 25, 1884. "It is a complete compendium of everything pertaining to the assaying of the above-mentioned ores." --Mining Record, April 7, 1883. "Allow me, as a miner, to thank you for your manual. It is written in English, and for us, and not for Freiberg men." --EUGENE SMITH. "My opinion is, that for clearness, accuracy, and adaptation to the uses of an American assayer, it is worth all the other assay books that I am acquainted with." --H. O. LANG. "Your book is plain and to and just the thing for beginners." --E. W. WALTER. "I congratulate you upon this little book I wish other writers on metallurgical subjects would write in as plain English." --Louis JANIN, Mining Engineer.