Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-04-15
LEARN TO BE MINE ENGINEERS.
Students Offered Thirteen Mining
Courses in Bulletin.

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The newly established department
of mining engineering at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin has just published
bulletin announcing thirteen special
courses in mining engineering for I'M
dergraduates, leading to the degree of
bachelor of science in the mining en-
cheering course, and an advanced
course is being arranged for next
year for which the professional degree
of engineer of mines will be confer
red
AS the duties of the mining engl-
neer are diverse and comprehensive.
the four-year undergraduate course is
designed to give the student funda'
mental training in structural, mechan-
| ical and electrical engineering, chem
istry and mineralogy and special work
in geology and the application of these
subjects to mining, ore dressing and
metallurgy.
Ore dressing and assay laboratories
are to be equipped in a building for
merly occupied by the heating plant,
where, in addition to the instruction
of students in the principles of ore
dressing by hand and the representa-
| tive machines. experimental and re-
search work will also be conducted.
A course in practical assaying will
follow those in general chemistry and
quantitative analysis.
The course in excavation and quar-
rying will include railway grading,
support of excavations, canal and sub
marine excavation, explosives, blast
ing and allied subjects. Tunneling.
boring and shaft sinking will form
the subject of another course, in
which the ventilation, drainage and
timbering of mine shafts will be con-
| sidered, with the methods of sinking
shafts through quicksands, rock and
earth and hosting eXpedients.
| In the course on prospecting and
mine development the relation of min
ing geology to exploration will pre-
cede consideration of the various
| forms of prospecting on the surface
and by shafts and drifts, and the de-
velopment Of veins discovered. A
| separate course in exploitation of
mines will give the student opportu-
nifty to learn methods of hydraulic
and dredge mining. ways of coal min
| ing and salt and sulphur mining, with
| the maintenance of entries and air
| ways.
Mine accidents, their causes. control
and prevention will be treated in the
| general course on mine engineering,
in which the design, installation and
| operation of all sorts of systems for
draining, yentilating, lighting, hoist
| ing, hauling and signaling in mines
will be taught. The generating and
| transmitting of power for surface
| plants, with the buildings, roads and
water supply for them will be a part
of the work.
| One Of the advanced courses will
| cover the subjects of gold and silver
milling and cyanidation, showing how
stamp mills are operated, the forms
of amalgamation and methods of
| treating precious metals under vari-
| GUS conditions. The senior thesis
work of mining students will consist
Of the design and working drawings
of the principal structures and ma
| chinery for mine, with a detailed
| report Of the development and equip
| ment
Brief courses in railway location,
| construction and maintenance and in
steam and gas engines will accompany
the more purely mining branches of
| study, so that students will be pre-
| pared for such railway and engine
| problems as may come to them for So
luton in their practical mining expe-
| rience.-W.