Excerpt from Contributions to Economic Geology, 1908, Vol. 1: Metals and Nonmetals, Except Fuels The first two bulletins of this series included numerous papers relating to the economic geology of Alaska. In View of the rapid increase of economic work, both in Alaska and in the States, and the organization of a division of Alaskan mineral resources distinct from the division of geology, it was in 1905 considered advisable to exclude all papers relating to Alaska. These were brought together in a separate volume entitled Report of progress of investigations of mineral resources of Alaska in Bulletin 259. A similar segregation of papers relating to Alaska. Has since been made and published annually. 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.