PREFACE. THE mineral wealth and geology of China are gradually assuming great importance in the development of the industries and sciences of China. For years past the author has been engaged upon a work dealing with these subjects and in that connection has compiled the biblio- graphy here presented. In the bibliographical works on China, the author has found . only a few references to them, and he therefore hopes this contribution, however imperfect and incomplete, may yet prove of value to all who take an interest in the evolution of a new China. Emboldened by the kind reception given to his book on Antimony, the author submits this small work, leaving to the competent hands of his publishers the passing of the proofs for press owing East. Wucuow, January, 1J1J. to his absence in the far distant 251140 C. Y. W. CONTENTS. I. MINERALS including Mining and Metallurgy. PAGES. 1. Coal, i.2 2. Iron, 12-17 3. Gold and Silver, 4. Minerals in General, .17-19 ....... 19-32 5. Mining Industry in General, 32-38 BIBLIOGRAPHY MINERAL WEALTH OF CHINA. I. MINERALS. 1. COAL. A. Coal in General. CARLES. Coal. Colliery Guardian, No. 2066, p. 237, 1900. CH., R. Les Houilleres des provinces chinoises voisines der Tonkin. Note sur les resultats techniques de la mission de M. A. Leclere. La Geog. B. S. G., Paris, ii., pp. 294-296, 1900. FONTAINE. Le Charbon en Extreme Orient. Revue Maritime et Colon., cxv. or cxii., pp. 539-559. PHASER. Coal and Pig Iron at Hankow. Consular Report, No. 3386. FUTTERER Abs.. Kohle und Gold in China und Zentral Asien. Zeit. f. prak. Geol., 1897, p. 389. GILES, B... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.