Weekly journal-miner., 1919-11-26
SHARP TALKS ID THE
 HIGH SCHOOL
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

A lecture was given yesterday to
 the high school students by Geo. R. Fansett, the mining engineer of the
 Arizona Bureau of Mines of the Uni versity of Arizona, for the purpose of
 showing the value of the knowledge
 of any science to everyone. The main subject ot the lecture was the simple
 field tests for the common metals and minerals
 MT. Fansett stressed the point that every school pupil, whether boy or girl, should take advantage of the op- portunities offered in school, and should take advantage of all scientific courses which were offered him as the time spent on them would not be wasted. He stated that the study of any scientific subject would be of great benefit to all students sooner or later, no matter what profession they took up. The World war, he said, was an engineers war and that had it not been for the technically trained men the war would have been alto gether different. Men educated in technical subjects are ever in demand and are becoming more so every day.
 He told of several men who had become mining engineers but because of their education in that line they had, because of necessity, turned to an altogether different profession and had made fame and wealth
 Because of the abundance of min eral resources in this part of the country, the greater part of his lee ture was devoted to the simple chemi- cal tests for metal in the crude min eral. He demonstrated the most practical methods of simply chemical analysis to be used either by the pro fessional or the amateur, in the field or laboratory.
 When learning the most practical test for metals in minerals, 1t is best to practice on some piece of ore, the constituents of which are already known. The tests for the more inn portant elements should thus be learned and become acquainted with. After you thus become familiar with these tests, you can attempt the an alysiS of some unknown minerals. He demonstrated only specific tests for metals, and as he said the tests for a certain metal will, of course, not do for any other metal, and will present different results"
 Mir. Fansett showed the students a compact pocket laboratory designed for prospectOrs, and containing prac- tically everything necessary for the determination of the most common metals, to be used any place and at any time, by anyone knowing the principles of the simple chemistry of metal determination. MT. Fansett worked out some chemical tests for copper, vanadium, and silver. He showed how comparatively simple 1t was for anyone to apply these tests.
 He also demonstrated some simple flame tests for various metals The color imparted to the flame was the clue to the main metal of the mineral, the density of the color, the clue to the grade of the metal. Although the lecture dealt mainly with the chem istry of mineralogy, Mir. Fansett stressed the importance of technical for everyone. He distributed ! some pamphlets which were com piled for the Arizona State Bureau oi i Mines to be used as a text for the | ectures on Prospectors' Mineralogy' | n it's extension lecture course"
 At different times the University of ! Arizona has sent out men to give lee lures to the various schools in the state, advocating university educa- ions and the study of technical courses. As MT. Fansett said, If you courses. As Mir Fansett said: If ,ou are lucky enough to get a scien- fife education, it is an attainment which you will never forget"