The Hard Rock Miner's Handbook is a reference book that deals with the underground hard-rock mining industry.
It was written by engineer Jack de la Vergne as a non-profit publication.
[1] The first edition was published in 2000 by McIntosh Engineering, a mining engineering consulting company.
[2] It is currently in its third printing, is used by thousands of people in the mining industry, including students, professors, miners, engineers and mining executives as a source of practical mining information,[3] as well as "Rules of Thumb" and "Tricks of the trade" are used widely in the mining industry.
[4] Copies of the handbook have been distributed to more than 113 countries around the world.