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  • NIOSH
    Zirconium - Its Production And Properties - Introduction

    LARGE-SCALE production of zirconium by the Northwest Electrodevelopment Laboratory of the Bureau of Mines at Albany, Oreg., is an anomaly that justifies some explanation. The reduction of titanium te

    Jan 1, 1956

  • AIME
    Mining Engineering Notebook – Do’s and Don’t’s on Belt

    By R. U. Jackson

    Belt conveying is a method of transportation that requires proper servicing and maintenance if completely economical results are to be obtained from the system. With a trucking system, it is commo

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    RI 5237 Synthetic Liquid Fuels - Annual Report Of The, Secretary Of The Interior For 1955 - Part II. -Oil From Oil Shale ? Introduction

    For 11 years, under authorization of the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act of April 5, 1944 (30 U.S.C. 321-325), and amendments, the Bureau of Mines has carried on an extensive research and development progr

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    IC 7740 Reconnaissance Of The "Red Bed" Copper Deposits In Southeastern Colorado And New Mexico ? Summary

    By John H. Soulé

    This paper describes the location and general features of the ?Red Bed? or sandstone copper deposits in southeastern Colorado and New Mexico. Most of the areas containing this type of deposit were vis

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    IC 7756 Research And Technologic Work On Coal And Related Investigations, 1954 ? Introduction And Summary

    By E. P. Carman

    This report is the 19th in a series summarizing Bureau of Mines research and technologic work on coal and related investigations. The first 17 reports covered fiscal years; however, the 18th report3/

    Jan 1, 1956

  • AIME
    Mining - Pumping Test Evaluates Water Problems at Eureka, Nev.

    By Wilbur T. Stuart

    TO assist the mining industry in attacking problems of water control, the U. S. Geological Survey has begun a program of research in mining hydrology. In certain fundamental respects water control is

    Jan 1, 1956

  • AUSIMM
    The Chemical Treatment of Gold Slime for the Recovery of High Purity Gold and Silver

    The ready solubility of gold in dilute aqueous solutions of the cyanides of the alkalies or alkaline earths provides a convenient method for the separation of the precious metal -from the large surplu

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    RI 5221 Analyses Of Tipple And Delivered Samples Of Coal (Collected During The Fiscal Year 1954) ? Introduction

    By S. J. Aresco

    The Bureau of Mines has been active in promoting the purchase of coal for Government use under specifications that define the requirements in terms of heating value of the coal, expressed in British t

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    IC 7734 Administration Of The Federal Coal-Mine Safety Act, Calendar Year 1954 - Introduction

    By James Westfield

    This report covers the calendar year 1954 and has been prepared and submitted to the Congress of the United States in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 106(a) and Sec. 2l2(c) of the Federal Coal-

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    Bibliography Of Bureau Of Mines Health And Safety Publications January 1947-June 1955 ? Introduction

    By H. B. Humphrey

    WHEN THE BUREAU OF MINES was created in 1910, the organic act had as one of its main provisions the following: That it shall be the province of said bureau and its director, under the direction of

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    RI 5225 Fundamental Flashback, Blowoff, And Yellow-Tip Limits Of Fuel Gas-Air Mixtures ? Introduction And Summary

    By Joseph Grumer

    About a century ago Bunsen and his associates invented the famous burner that bears his name and was to become the ancestor of today's gas appliances. Over the years, Bunsen's invention beca

    Jan 1, 1956

  • CIM
    Water Transportation and Canada's Mineral Industry

    By R. Lowery

    TODAY, man uses, at will, the land, the water, and the air to transport himself and his goods everywhere across the face of the world. He no longer thinks with wonder of the magic of conquering thes

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    RI 5205 Electrolytic Recovery Of Zinc From Galvanizers' Sal Skimmings ? Summary

    By P. M. Sullivan

    This report describes a new application of electroamalgam metallurgy in recovering all the zinc as refined metal from galvanizers' sal skimmings. Pure zinc was recovered by electrolysis of skimmi

    Jan 1, 1956

  • RMCMI
    Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Regular Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute Glenwood Springs, Colorado June 17, 18, 19, 20, 1956 - President's Address

    "Guests and Members of the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute: "It gives me a great deal of pleasure to call the Fifty-Second regular meeting to order this morning. "I think that you will agree wi

    Jan 1, 1956

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - Curie Temperatures of' Binary and Ternary Sigma Phases

    By P. A. Beck, M. V. Nevitt

    All binary and a number of ternary u alloys formed by first long period transition elements were examined and found to be ferromagnetic at low temperatures. The Curie temperatures for these alloys wer

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    RI 5173 Manganese exploration in the Philipsburg District, Granite County, Mont

    By J. S. McNabb

    "A search for manganese ore by core-drill exploration was carried out by the Bureau of Mines in the Philipsburg mining district in Granite County, Mont., in 1939 and 1940. This work was based on detai

    Dec 1, 1955

  • AIME
    Mining Engineering Notebook – A Survey of Exploration Drills

    Flexibility is the keynote in designing modern exploration drills that and mobility. Add to the flexibility of individual drills the wide range of models, and the man looking for a drill has ample cho

    Oct 1, 1955

  • NIOSH
    RI 5159 Estimate of known recoverable reserves and the preparation and carbonizing properties of coking coal in Marion County, Tenn

    By Lloyd Williams, R. E. Hershey, B. W. Gandrud

    "1. The investigation shows that the Sewanee bed is the only bed of major importance in Marion County, 97 percent of the coal mined in the county having come :from this bed. There are coal reserves in

    Oct 1, 1955

  • IIMP
    Algunos aspectos de la silicosis que interesan a los ingenieros de Minas (I)

    By Juan Ayza

    Ante el peligro de la concentración y exposición de los polvos de sílices en el personal minero, el presente texto revisa la silicosis -en tanto determina las propiedades de los polvos en reacción y

    Oct 1, 1955

  • IIMP
    Exploración geológica y geofísica en las minas de Cercapuquio (II)

    El presente artículo señala que el proceso de exploración en superficie de la mina de Cercapuquio para determinar nuevas zonas mineralizadas, es de difícil actuación a causa de la falta de ganga en es

    Oct 1, 1955