Excerpt from Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining: Reported From January to May, 1919 The term mineral in its commercial sense has been defined as any organic substance found in nature having sufficient value sepa rate from its situs as part of the earth to be mined, quarried, or dug for its own sake or its own specific use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.