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By Alfred L. Beebe

to. A strip of thin platinum foil, about one inch square, is perforated with pin-holes over its entire surface. It is then bent into the shape of a letter U, and its opposite corners are connected by short pieces of platinum wire, so as to form a sort of basket. In this is placed a piece of amalgamated zinc of convenient size, and the whole is suspended by a stout platinum or silver wire in the bottle containing the solution to be reduced. Another strip of platinum foil,

Jan 1, 1886

By H. N. Hickey

Wildcat drilling operations in Montana during 1933 did not yield any discoveries of oil or gas that were of major importance. There was comparatively little drilling in the older proven fields, as most of the interest was centered in the Cut Bank field, where 44 wells were completed. The total number of wells completed in the state during the year was 79, of which 62 were productive of either oil or gas.

Jan 1, 1934

By E. J. Schmitz

This trip, beginning at Springfield, August 12, 1897, and ending at the same place fourteen days later, extended south and southeast through Christian, Ozark and Taney counties,

Jan 1, 1899

SECTION I PAGE PAGE President's Western Trip v Presentation of the' John Fritz Hoover Makes Plea to. Stop Food Medal to Henry M. Howe.... xv Waste v International Mining Convention. xxxv. American Committee of Engineers Personal xl in London vii Employment xlii Proceedings, Meeting of Board of Local Section News xliii Directors : vii Forthcoming Meetings of Societies xlvii St. Louis Meeting V... Library xlviii The Woman's Auxiliary. xi Membership liv Members of the Institute in Mili- Biographical Notice of H. T. Chen. lxxiv tary Service xiv Institute Committees lxxv Officers and Directors lxxxii

Jan 7, 1917

By Don Coulter

OBSERVATIONS were made over a period of seventeen months to ascertain the economic value of a four-cycle Miller engine direct-connected to a Watts compressor, to determine whether this type of engine could compete suc-cessfully against the old type of two-cycle engine in general use. The accompanying tables show the data obtained. The first, over a period of seventeen months, compares the operating cost per hour and cost per horsepower-hour with

Jan 8, 1928

ENGINEERING department problems of unravel- ling filing systems of reference data, detail drawings, magazine tear sheets, technical records, manufacturers' catalogs-and coordinating them with the information classification systems employed by the company library and other information services -are being solved in many cases by adopting a basic classification system such as that used by Sweet's Catalog Service and applying its classification and indexing methods to file or bookshelf. By this procedure the engineering department does away with the confusion, duplication, and conflict that exist between personal, department, and company library files. It establishes a pattern for regulating and distributing the potential information that piles up daily in the engineering department basket marked "Incoming."

Jan 5, 1954

Jan 1, 1930

By Omar A. Muhtadi

Experimental statistical designs were used at Zortman Mining Company's, Zortman, Montana, heap-leach operation to establish functional relationships between key operating parameters and gold/silver recoveries. Zinc feed rate, lead feed rate, and vacuum (CFM/gpm) account for 64% and 67% of the attainable gold and silver recoveries, respectively. Surface response graphs of the resulting polynomials were plotted. These graphs were used to optimize Zortman's Merrill-Crowe precipitation process.

Jan 1, 1984

By A. C. Backeberg

There is no South African code for the design of reinforced concrete headframes, and all those erected have been designed on a uniform basis which, up to the present, has tended to be conservative. With certain exceptions designs have generally conformed with British Standard Code of Practice C.P. 114. In the design of reinforced concrete headframes the following loads are taken into account:

Jan 11, 1961

Receipts General Funds: Initiation fees : $ 4,705.00 Arrears of dues :...: 1,345.79 Current dues 40,924.78 Advanced dues 1,613.29 Sale of binding 10,367.48 Sale of advertising.: :... 7,109.98 Sale of transactions 4,085.42 Sale of special editions : 553.17 Sale of bulletins and pamphlets 2,028.22 Miscellaneous Receipts: Returned to general funds from land fund account 146.50 Interest on investments and deposits ; 353.29 Sale of pins and fobs 278.05 Library insurance cancelled..: 103.95 Sale of library books 28.70 Refund .from Madison Affl. Student Society....11.22 Miscellaneous 396.47 $74,081.31 Cash balance December 31, 1914: 6,316.90

Jan 2, 1916

By M. B. Bever, J. E. Reynolds

IN several alloys of iron, copper, and lithium as well as in some pure metals, martensite formed on cooling reverts to the parent phase upon heating to a temperature below the equilibrium temperature at which the parent phase becomes stable.' These martensitic transformations, therefore, are thermally reversible, although appreciable hysteresis may be involved. The martensitic reaction has long been

Jan 1, 1953

MEMBERS of the Research Committee lunched to-gether on Monday and discussed the work and plans of the Committee. Some re-assignment of duties was made and a request put in for another member specializing in lead and zinc. By request, Director Flinn of the Engineering Foundation presented the problem of the proposed investigation of iron alloys. It was decided to call together a special committee in May to determine on recommendations. A. C. Fieldner discussed coal research and Chairman Manning was authorized to ascertain by letter ballot the opinions, on certain phases of this, of all members of the Committee.

Jan 3, 1928

By Frank C. Greene

Drilling in Missouri in 1944 was nearly treble the rate of 1943 because of continued development of the Tarkio pool in Atchison County and the preparation of a pool in Jackson County for a water-injection project. The pipe line from the Prairie Point gas pool in Platte County was in operation throughout the year of 1944, but several of the shallow oil pools in Cass and Jackson Counties were off production during much of 1944 because of a shortage of help. Table I gives a summary of activities by counties. The total footage drilled was 41,475 .ft., of which 21,187 ft. was by rotary tools and 20,268 ft. by cable tools.

Jan 1, 1945

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS 29 West 39th Street, New York, N. Y. PROPOSAL FOR MEMBERSHIP Mr.. Address Member is hereby proposed by the undersigned, as a Associate Junior Member .of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Signatures of three Members or Associates. Place of birth, Year of birth_ Education, when, where and how acquired, with degrees, if any. A technical education is not requisite for membership. Data Please give record of experience on following page with dates; for example, in the form used by "Who's Who In America" and similar publications.

Jan 10, 1917

By A. M. Strauss

This contribution illustrates the application of the theory of period doubling to the description of the formation of microcracks in rocks. The fundamental mathematics is described and a method of prediction is proposed. The invariance (universal constants) of a generic microfracturing (damage) process is described. Finally, the method is presented as a deterministic method of predicting the failure of an engineering material while keeping track of the amount of damage that has occured at any point.

Jan 1, 1984

By L. C. Noakes

Despite a long history of mining. Australia had no Commonwealth organization dealing specifically with the mineral industry until 1946, when the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics was established. Once formed, this new organization quickly expanded to include a Mineral Economics Section, which was established in 1947. Australia's slowness to develop a Federal bureau for the mineral industry can best be explained in the light of her political history. From a group of British crown colonies, Australia evolved into six sovereign states which had no unified federal government until they formed the present Commonwealth in 1901.

Jan 1, 1970

By Thomas O. Breitling

The Mill Design Session at the Annual Meeting in New York next February will have a total of four papers. All of these papers will be concerned with the subject of in-plant dust in the hard-rock mining industry. The emphasis on efficient dust collection is timely, because dust is a problem not yet adequately covered in AIME papers. In general, dust collection should be the step following dust suppression. Dust collection and its return to the ore recovery circuit, or its waste to tailing are sources of added operating cost. If possible, dust should be kept in the main stream of ore flow by suppression.

Jan 1, 1970

By S. D. Strauss

Mr. Strauss takes apart the double threat of monopoly and failing resources in this article. Originally presented before the American Electroplaters Society, the basic contents o f his message are a warning that traditional trust-busting and mineral shortage concepts have been outdated by the broadened scope of competition. But to the miner, stoic before the cyclical predictions of feast and famine, traditional markets aren't getting any easier.

Jan 8, 1961

By G. L. Gates

The comments by George L. Gates are appropriate to the characteristics that we sought to feature in our study and they are appreciated by the authors. In our laboratory deposition tests the smoothness of the surface seemed to be more important than the type of surface. However, we also noted that even where very smooth glass, plastic or polished metal coupons were used, scale deposition still occurred though the rate varied. Much more information is needed, however, and new work to solve the mineral scale deposition problem by mechanical and chemical means is expected to continue.

By J. Blodget Britton

To the question, "Do the Pennsylvania anthracites contain phosphorus ?" asked at the last meeting of the Institute during the discussion on the metallurgical value of Western lignites, I can now give a definite answer. Through the kindness of a gentleman connected with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and another connected with one of the principal ironworks on the Lehigh, there was sent to the Iron-masters' Laboratory a number of samples of the coals now largely shipped from the Schuylkill and Lehigh regions. Seventeen of these I examined for their contents of ash and phosphorus, and obtained results as follows

Jan 1, 1873