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II.—On “Wants” in Ironstone Seams1 and their Connection with Faults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Robert L. Jack
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Of all the “troubles” that afflict the Ironstone miner, few are more perplexing than those known as “wants.” It sometimes happens that in the course of the working a “face” is being carried forward into the ironstone seam, when the miner finds that he has taken out what is apparently the last piece of “stone,” and looks with astonishment at “the blaise where the stone should be.”

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 87 , September 1871 , pp. 388 - 391
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1871

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Footnotes

1

Only clay-band and black-band Ironstones interstratified with Carboniferous rocks are here referred to.

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page 389 note 1 Faults sometimes increase with remarkable rapidity. The above example is not a hypothetical one.

page 389 note 2 As neither “elasticity” nor “flexibility” expresses the meaning to be conveyed, I am compelled to use this roundabout phrase.