As I occupied the site of the mining engineer in Chief at the Osaka Mining Burean 1907 9, I was favonred to visit the several mines of pyrite deposits in the crystalline schists region of the Southern part of Japan, and, especially spent some plenty days in the Besshi copper mine. In 1909 I have published a paper, describing that the so-called pyrite beds in the crystalline schists would be fissure-filling veins. When I was studying pyrite deposits in the Berg-akademie, Freiberg, Germany, and the cry-stalline schists in fhe Uniersitat, Wien, Austria, the 1st World War arose, September, 1915, I was obliged to get of alone, baying all materials in Wien. On the way to America, I have studied the ore-deposits of the Rio-Tinto mine, and others, Lpain.
After visiting the mines of America and Canada from Oct., 1915-Feb., 1916, I have stayed in Boston, attending to the Mass. Inst. Tech. and the Harvard University to study geology. Meannhile I investigated thegenesis of the native copper deposits in the Keweenaw Cape, and the iron are deposits in the Mesabi Range, Mich., to the end of 1915. After returning to home, I hane spent a long years to prospect the petroleum in Totomi, Shizuoka Pref., and to study the diagenesis of the Quarternary and its structure with my patented instruments.
The 1st Coference of the Mining Engineering, have stimulated me to recollect the former experience and to combine my recent study Ai, hich was prepared in my mind. In this paper I shall express my idea about it, that is to say, the ore-deposits of the Besshi copper mine is considered by me the replacement of lime-stone by cupriferous pyrite.
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