This article is from Chapter 5 of "Mining, an elementary treatise on the getting of minerals" by Arnold Lupton, M.I.C.E., F.G.S. etc. published in 1893.

Arnold Lupton is described on the flyleaf of the book as a Mining Engineer, Certificated Colliery Manager, Surveyor, etc. Professor of Coal Mining at the Victoria University, Yorkshire College, Leeds ; Professor of Mining at the Derbyshire County Council selected Mining Class, Derby ; Examiner in Mine Surveying, City and Guilds Central Institution, London.

Topics covered:-

• Site of Colliery
• Sinking
• Unsoiling
• Excavation and Shape
• Blasting
• Electric Blasting
• Shaft-Lining
• Scaffold
• Capstans
• Pit-Top and Winding-Engine
• Hoppets
• Water Garlands
• Guides
• Sinking-Pumps
• Bucket
• Swinging Wind-bore
• Underground Pumping-Engine
• Rectangular Shafts
• Temporary Lining
• Rules for Safety
• Ventilation
• Explosives
• Drilling by Steam power
• Speed of Sinking
• Bricks and Stones for Shaft-lining
• Tubbing and Coffering
• Design and Strength of Tubbing
• Width of Ribs
• Thickness of Plate and Ribs
• Faced Tubbing
• Coffering
• Wooden Tubbing
• Quicksand
• Deepening of Shafts
• Kind-Chauldron