Zeitschrift für praktische Geologie

Went through the first decades of the Zeitschrift für praktische Geologie starting in 1893 at the Bergbau Bibliothek in Bochum today. Even though I found disappointingly little on lime or lignite mining, I found that this journal is an interesting source. I was especially struck by the many contributions that are apparently part of a colonialist agenda. Many notes about resources being discovered in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It would probably be worth going through the journal more systematically - if i only had the time to do so…