Mining Methods and Costs at the Washington Mine of the Alan Wood Mining Company

American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, 1933. 6" wide by 9" tall. Original printed wrappers. Cover lightly soiled. Text pages are FINE. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with line drawings. From the text: "The Washington mine is on Jonestown Hill, one mile south of Oxford, in northwestern New Jersey. It is producing 16,000 tons of concentrates a month, which are being shipped to the Alan Wood Steel Company's furnaces at Swedeland, Pennsylvania." This copy is from the library of scientist and author Robert B. Sosman, with his tiny ink stamp. A physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions there were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics." Keywords: New Jersey Mineralogy. Geology. . Softcover pamphlet. Very Good+ condition. 9 pages.…