Wikipedia:WikiProject Mining/Library

This is the WikiProject Mining Library, a place to gather useful resources that may be of general interest to the WikiProject and Wikipedians in helping to expand and source articles. As a goal is to have all articles adequately sourced, this collection should help achieve this.

NOTE: All sources must be freely accessible by any user, be non-commercial or historical, be public domain or freely-licensed (or be hosted by the copyright holder), and must not be locked behind or passwords or paywalls.

Most resources listed are from the Internet Archive, which hosts freely-available full digital scans of many older works that are in the public domain or otherwise freely-licensed in the United States; copyright status in other countries has not been assessed, though the individual links are to pages with full details for each works.

Metal and Ore mining, generally

 * covering by-economic mineral (e.g. Lead alone, Lead-zinc) the various ore deposits of the US and Canada.

Coal mining

 * covering every aspect of coal mining and related aspects of engineering, with topics ranging from stoping to mine safety and rescue to mine railways and coal breakers.

Mines and Minerals (Colliery Engineer)
Published by Colliery Engineer out of Scranton, Penn., USA. Formerly Mines and Minerals, then. In October 1915, it merged with Coal Age (information from the paper headers, archive info appears off)
 * Vol. 31 (August 1910–July 1911)
 * Vol. 32 (August 1911–July 1912)
 * Vol. 33 (August 1912–July 1913)
 * Vol. 34 (August 1913–July 1914)
 * Vol. 35 (August 1914–July 1915)

Coal Age
Weekly magazine on coal mining. Published by McGraw-Hill out of New York City, New York, USA.
 * Vol. 3 (Jan-Jun 1913)
 * Vol. 4 (Jul-Dec 1913)
 * Vol. 16 (Jul-Dec 1919)
 * Vol. 17 (Jan-Jun 1920)
 * Vol. 18 (Jul-Dec 1920)
 * Vol. 19 (Jan-Jun 1921)
 * Vol. 20 (Jul-Dec 1921)
 * Vol. 21 (Jan-Jun 1922)
 * Vol. 22 (Jul-Dec 1922)

Mining and Scientific Press
This was a weekly illustrated newspaper/magazine published from May 24, 1860 onward into the 20th century, by Dewey & Co. (later Dewey Publishing) in San Francisco, California, USA.

The paper is well-illustrated, and covers metal and ore mining and extractive metallurgy (and some popular science), focusing primarily on the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and to a lesser extent Central and South America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, with scattered articles on mining around the world (e.g. Russia, Korea). It often includes detailed profiles of individual mines or mining districts, some with geological, section, and plan diagrams, as well as shorter news reports from mines and mining regions in each edition, as well as profiles of new technologies.

Editions that have fallen into the public domain in the United States (Pre-1923) have been scanned and uploaded to the Internet Archive, arranged into volumes consisting of six months worth of the paper:


 * Volumes 1-6 were either not found or scanned
 * Volume 7 (1862-63)
 * Volume 8
 * Volume 9
 * Volume 10 (1865)
 * Volume 11
 * Volume 12 (1866)
 * Volume 13
 * Volume 14 (1867)
 * Volume 15
 * Volume 16 (1868)
 * Volume 17
 * Volume 18 (1869)
 * Volume 19
 * Volume 20 (1870)
 * Volume 21
 * Volume 22 (1871)
 * Volume 23
 * Volume 24 (1872)
 * Volume 25
 * Volume 26 (1873)
 * Volume 27
 * Volume 28 (1874)
 * Volume 29
 * Volume 30 (1875)
 * Volume 31
 * Volume 32 (1876)
 * Volume 33
 * Volume 34 (1877)
 * Volume 35
 * Volume 36 (1878)
 * Volume 37
 * Volume 38 (1879)
 * Volume 39
 * Volume 40 (1880)
 * Volume 41
 * Volume 42 (1881)
 * Volume 43
 * Volume 44 (1882)
 * Volume 45
 * Volume 46 (1883)
 * Volume 47
 * Volume 48 (1884)
 * Volume 49


 * Volume 50 (1885)
 * Volume 51
 * Volume 52 (1886)
 * Volume 53
 * Volume 54 (1887)
 * Volume 55
 * Volume 56 (1888)
 * Volume 57
 * Volume 58 (1889)
 * Volume 59
 * Volume 60 (1890)
 * Volume 61
 * Volume 62 (1891)
 * Volume 63
 * Volume 64 (1892)
 * Volume 65
 * Volume 66 (1893)
 * Volume 67
 * Volume 68 (1894)
 * Volume 69
 * Volume 70 (1895)
 * Volume 71
 * Volume 72 (1896)
 * Volume 73
 * Volume 74 (1897)
 * Volume 75
 * Volume 76 (1898)
 * Volume 77
 * Volume 78 (1899)
 * Volume 79
 * Volume 80 (1900)
 * Volume 81
 * Volume 82 (1901)
 * Volume 83
 * Volume 84 (1902)
 * Volume 85
 * Volume 86 (1903)
 * Volume 87
 * Volume 88 (1904)
 * Volume 89
 * Volume 90 (1905)
 * Volume 91
 * Volume 92 (1906)
 * Volume 93
 * Volume 94 (1907)
 * Volume 95
 * Volume 96 (1908)
 * Volume 97
 * Volume 98 (1909)
 * Volume 99


 * Volume 100 (1910)
 * Volume 101
 * Volume 102 (1911)
 * Volume 103
 * Volume 104 (1912)
 * Volume 105
 * Volume 106 (1913)
 * Volume 107
 * Volume 108 (1914)
 * Volume 109
 * Volume 110 (1915)
 * Volume 111
 * Volume 112 (1916)
 * Volume 113
 * Volume 114 (1917)
 * Volume 115
 * Volume 116 (1918)
 * Volume 117
 * Volume 118 (1919)
 * Volume 119
 * Volume 120 (1920)
 * Volume 121
 * Volume 122 (1921)
 * Volume 123
 * Volume 124 (JAN–MAR 1922)