. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. rests the feasibility of prospectin<; this territory a-rain. notfor platininn. but for (luicksilver. The suggestion has been maiie insome of om- laboratory reports that the .sender attempt to lind thesource of the cinnabar i)resent in the sample submitted. The present high price of mercury has apparently .stimulated theprosjiecting for this metal. At lea-st one new deposit of cinnabar liasbeen found in Xaj)a County during the past year. During the three-month period covere
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. rests the feasibility of prospectin<; this territory a-rain. notfor platininn. but for (luicksilver. The suggestion has been maiie insome of om- laboratory reports that the .sender attempt to lind thesource of the cinnabar i)resent in the sample submitted. The present high price of mercury has apparently .stimulated theprosjiecting for this metal. At lea-st one new deposit of cinnabar liasbeen found in Xaj)a County during the past year. During the three-month period covered by this report samples havebeen received from practically every county in the state, 1159 deter-minations having been LIBRARY. S2i LIBRARY. E. A. Lowe, Librarian. lu additiou to the numerous standard -works, authorative informa-tion on many phases of the mining: and mineral industry is constantlybeinf? issued in the form of reports and bulletins by various govern-ment agencies. The library of the State ]\Iining Bureau contains some five thousandselected volumes on mines, mining and allied subjects, and it is alsoa repository for reports and bulletins of the technical departments offederal and state governments and of educational institutions, botlidomestic and foreign. It is not the dearth of the latter publications, but rather a lack ofknowledge of just what has been published and where the reports maybe consulted or obtained, that embarrasses the ordinary person seekingspecific information. To assist in making the public acquainted with this valuable sourceof current technical information, jMining in California contains underthis heading a list of all books and official reports and bulletinsreceive
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