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Report M294 A mineralogical investigation of potential gold-sorbing minerals and shales, by c.T. Logan. Dec. 1986. 12 pp. Computer software The Fifth IFAC/IFIP Symposium on Software for Computer Control (SOCOCO 88) is to be held in J ohannesburg from 26th to 28th April, 1988. Tunneling 88 The Institution of Mining and Metalurgy, with the cooperation of the British Tunneling Society, the Institution of Mining Engineers, and the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, Department of Transport, is pleased to announce the fifth international symposium, Tunneling 88, which wil be held in London, England, from 18th to 21st April, 1988. Ion-exchange processes ION-EX '87, an international conference and industrial exhibition on the industrial, analytical, and preparative applications of ion chromatography and ionexchange processes, wil be held in Wrexham (North Wales) from 13th to 16th April, 1987.

Jan 1, 1987

1. Book review Gold and silver handbook: On geology, exploration, production, economics of large tonnage, low grade deposits, published by S.W. Ivosevic. 227 pp. $29.50 + 3.25 for shipping and handling. Available from the publisher, 207 World Savings Building, 12211 West Alameda Parkway, Denver, Colorado 80228, D.S.A. Reviewer: D.G. Krige 2. New Canadian publications Canadian mines: perspective from 1983. Ottawa, Canadian Government Publishing Center, 1984. $4.20. The Canadian iron ore industry: current and emerging problems.

Jan 1, 1985

1. Book reviews Geostatistics for natural resources characterization, edited by G. Verly, M. David, A.G. Journel, and A. Marechal. Hingham (MA 02043, U.S.A.), D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1984. Pt I: 606 pp. Pt 11: 518 pp. U.S.$135,50 per set. Reviewer: D.G. Krige Magnesium, the international perspective, by Peter King. London, Financial Times Business Information Ltd, 1984. £120. 147 pp. Reviewer: D.G. Maxwell 2. Mintek reports Report M156 A kinetic study of the reactions of certain gaseous sulphur compounds with iron. Report MI57 Reaction mechanisms in the reduction of Winterveld chrome spinel with graphite and carbon. Report MI72 Computer programmes for the control and datamanipulation of a sequential X-rayfluorescence spectrometer. Report MI77 A proposed test for the determination of the grindabi/ity of fine materials. Report MI86 A survey of the erosion, corrosion, and abrasion of material-handling systems in the mining and mineralprocessing industry. 3. New journal Advanced materials & processes, issued monthly by American Society for Metals (Metals Park, Ohio 44073, U.S.A.). CIM conference The combined 24th Annual Conference of Metallurgists and the 15th Annual Hydrometallurgical Meeting will be held in Vancouver from 18th to 22nd August, 1985. Light metals The 8th International Light Metals Congress will take place from the 22nd to 26th June, 1987. These meetings, which take place traditionally every few years, are organized by the Austrian Metals Industry Association, the Austrian aluminium industry, and the University for Mining and Metallurgy in Leoben, in collaboration with the Aluminium-Zentrale Diisseldorf. President of AS&TS* Mr Arthur Woodington Reynolds (Sam) took office as President of The Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of South Africa on 28th November, 1984. Sam Reynolds was born in Boksburg on 27th December, 1930, and received his education at Christian Brothers College in Boksburg and at St John's College in Johannesburg. World mining Sweden, Finland, and Norway expect representatives of all mining countries in May-June 1987 to the 13th World Mining Congress in Stockholm. The Swedish Mining Association, the Finnish Association of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and The Association of Norwegian Mines will organize the Congress, together with the International Organizing Committee of the World Mining Congress. Sheet metal The German Group of the International Deep Drawing Research Group (IDDRG) will be organizing the 14th Biennial Congress of the IDDRG on 21st to 26th April, 1986, in Cologne and Munich. Safety in mines The 21st International Conference of Safety in Mines Research Institutes is to be held in Sydney from 20th to 25th October, 1985. ILAF A conferences The Instituto Latinoamericano del Fierro y el Acero (ILAFA) has scheduled the following congresses for 1985. Mechanical testing of materials The Deutsche Gesellschaft fiir Metallkunde, together with the Deutschen Verband fiir Materialpriifung and the Fachhochschule Osnabriick, is holding a course on the methods used for the mechanical testing of materials at Osnabriick from 9th to 11th September, 1985. Mine ventilation The Second U.S. Mine Ventilation Symposium will be presented from 23rd to 25th September, 1985, in Reno, Nevada, by the University of Nevada-Reno's Mackay School of Mines and Division of Continuing Education.

Jan 1, 1985

1. Book reviews Physiochemical properties of molten slags and glasses, by E.T. Turkdogan. London, Metals Society, 1983.516 pp. £35. Reviewer: A.F .S. Scboukens Microstructural characterisation of metals and alloys, by P.E.J. Flewitt and R.K. Wild. London, Institute of Metals, 1984. £14. Reviewer: M.P. Sbaw Metallurgical applications of magnetohydrodynamics, edited by H.K. Moffatt and M.R.E. Proctor. London, Metals Society, 1984.346 pp. U.K. £35, U.S. $70. Reviewer: N.A. Barcza Extractive metallurgy symposium. Proceedings of a meeting on 12-14 November, 1984, organised by the Melbourne Branch. Parkville (Victoria), Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1985. Reviewer: B.K. Loveday Conference on gold mining, metallurgy and geology. Proceedings of a meeting on 9-11 October, 1984, organisedby the Perth and Kalgoorlie Branch. Parkville (Victoria), Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1985. Reviewer: B.K. Loveday Corporate policies for the 1980's in the steel industry, by Patrick Genevaz in collaboration with B.A. Bloom. La Chambre des Cartes, 26 rue de Piepus, 75012 Paris (France). U.S.$7oo, additional copies $140. Reviewer: D.C. Maree Mineral processing technology, by B.A. Wills. Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1984 (3rd edition). 629 pp. Hard cover £31.50, soft cover £9.75. Reviewer: B.K. Loveday Ma1lllgement information-ma1lllging for improYement, volume 2: symposium proceedings and additional papers. edited by M. Hammond. Doncaster (England), The Institution of Mining Engineers, 1984. 86 pp. £60 for vols. 1 and 2 (124 pp.). Reviewer: M.J .R. Meyer 2. Recent publications Tins and its and its uses no. 144, 1985. This issue by the International Tin Research Institute (Fraser Road, Greenford, Middlesex, UB6 7AQ, Canadian minerals yearbook 1983-84. Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, Mineral Report 33. Ottawa, Canadian Government Publishing Centre, 1985. $35.40. 82 Year 1984, edited by 1.0. Jones and RM. Louthean. Kalgoorlie (Australia), Western Australian School of Mines, 1985. 100 pp. Johnson Matthey Chemicals 1984-85, issued by Matthey Catalogue Sales (Orchard Road, Royston, Hertfordshire SG8 SHE, England). 416 pp. South Africa's mineral industry 1984. Johannesburg, Minerals Bureau, 1985. 190 pp. Coal 1985. Operating and developing coal mines in the Republic of South Africa. Johannesburg, Minerals Bureau, Directory 2/8S. 1985. 72 pp. Gold 1985. Operating gold mines and gold recovery plants in the Republic of South Africa. Johannesburg, Minerals Bureau, Directory 3/8S. 98 pp. 3. New journal Pergamon Press, New York, have announced the publication of a new quarterly known as the International Journal of Plasticity. 4. Mintek reports Report M93D Hydrochloric acid leaching and low-temperature roasting of tin-tungsten concentrates from Van Roois Vley. (First issued April 1983.) Report M99D The upgrading of coarse kyanite crystals. (First issued Report M105D The development and installation of a microcomputer based data logger, and the analysis and evaluation of data. (First issued July 1983.) Report M109D The remelting ofsi/iconfines. (First issued July 1983.) Report M180 An assessment of available corrosion inhibitors for the reticulation systems of South African gold mines. Report MW1 Quantitative assessments of abrasive and impactive wear from ball-size distributions in rotary mills.

Jan 1, 1985

Book review Pearson, J. S. Ocean floor mining. Park Ridge (New Jersey), Noyes Data Corporation, 1975. 201 pp. NIM reports Report no. 308 A mineralogical study of gold particles in pulp residues from the Bracken Gold Mine. (7th Mar.,1968. Re-issued Oct. 1975.) Report no. 377 Examination of pulp samples, treated with cyanide, for coated gold.(7th Aug., 1968. Reissued Oct.1975.) Report no. 385 The determination of the nature of coatings on gold particles. (2nd Aug., 1968. Reissued Oct. 1975.) Report no. 452 The Purlex Process - a description of the pilot plant leading to the use of the process in South Africa. (13th Jan., 1969. Re-issued Oct. 1975.) Report no. 482 Review of work on the treatment of pegmatites. (9th Apr., 1969. Reissued Sep. 1975.) Report no. 1443 Gravity concentration tests on four samples from Tantalite Valley,S. W.A. (5th Jul., 1972. Re-issued Sep. 1975.) Report no. 1489 The breakage of S oderberg electrodes. (10th Nov., 1972. Re-issued Nov. 1975.) Report no. 1545 A mineralogical investigation of leach residues from the Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mine. (22nd May, 1973. Re-issued Nov. 1975.) Report no. 1583 Preliminary tests on winnowing for the recovery of mica. (12th Nov., 1973. Re-issued Sep. 1975.) Report no. 1652 The identification of diamonds from Premier, Finsch, and Jagersfontein Mines by statistical analysis of data obtained from instrumental neutron-activation analysis. Report no. 1723 The determination of zirconium and aluminium in zirconiumaluminium alloys. Report no. 1739 The determination of trace amounts of noble metals in sulphate media. Report no. 1771 The determination of silver, selenium, tellurium, antimony, tin, lead, and arsenic in anode sludges. Report no. 1772 A study of copper recovery by lime roasting and leaching. Corrigendum The Special Issue of Volume 76 of the Journal ('Recent Advances in Mineral Dressing, October 1975) should be corrected as follows. The South African Institute Of Mining And Metallurgy - Information On Membershlp The Institute was founded in 1894 as the Chemical and Metallurgical Society of South Africa. In 1904 it was reconstituted as the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa and in 1956 it became the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut vir Mynbou en Metallurgie - Inligting Oor Lidmaatskap Die Instituut is in 1894 gestig as die Chemiese en MIetallurgiese Vereniging van ::!nid-Afrika. In 190-1is dit omvorm tot die Chemiese Metallurgiese en Mynbouvereniging van Sllid-Afrika en in 1956 het dit die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut vir Mynbou en l\Ietallurgie geword.

Jan 2, 1976

Broken Hill Mines-1968, edited by M. Radmanovich and J. T. Woodcock, published by The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, 613 pages. Price $A15. This volume, containing some 65 technical papers, was produced for the 1968 annual conference of the Australasian Institute held at Broken Hill to mark the 75th Anniversary of that Institute, founded at Broken Hill in 1893. That conference also coincided with the 85th Anniversary of the discovery of the Broken Hill mining field. This closely reflects the position in this country, where the Witwatersrand gold fields were discovered in 1886, and our South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy will in March, 1969 be celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the forerunners of our Institute. There is a comprehensive report of the geology of the Broken Hill area and the mineralogy of the ore body, and there are reports on the mining methods and the metallurgical procedures which have been developed over 85 years of operation of one of the great mining fields of the world. The value of most of the papers is enhanced by a large number of illustrations and photographs. An early section covers the academic and practical aspects of rock mechanics, prospecting, and exploration techniques are described in some detail. A third of the volume is devoted to mining, with papers on 26 aspects. The breadth of the coverage gives an indication of much specialized development, research, and consequent maturity in all departments. The detailed treatment of metallurgical aspects such as sizings of individual mineral particles throughout the milling stages and the development of an on-stream analysis system for lead will commend this volume to the specialist. The committee responsible for the production of this volume, which brings together much information previously only to be found after searching through numerous publications, are to be congratulated on a well produced comprehensive review of many aspects of the mining and metallurgical fields. H.B.

Book review HOEK, E., and BRAY, J. Rockslope engineering. London, The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1974. £5. NIM reports Report no. 1625 The determination of uranium and thorium by the use of delayed neutrons. Report no. 1626 Formation constants of zinc chlorocomplexes in perchlorate medium. Report no. 1629 The thermodynamics of the formation of complexes of silver with some substituted pyridines. Report no. 1630 An electrochemical investigation of the dissolution of copper, nickel, and copper-nickel alloys in ammonium carbonate solutions. Report no. 1640 A semi-automatic titrimeter for cyanide analyses. Report no. 1644 Prospects for the recovery of minerals from the sea. 1974 A.S. & T.S. National Award Professor D. C. Midgley, President of the Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of South Africa, today announced the winner of the 1974 A.S. & T.S. National Award. 1974 G.W. en T.V. Nasionale Toekenning Professor D. C. Midgley, President van die Geassosieerde Wetenskaplike en Tegniese Verenigings van Suid- Afrika het vandag die wenner van die 1974 G.W. & T.V. Nasionale Toekenning aangekondig.

Jan 9, 1974

Book review Proceedings of the Symposium on Mining Methods. London, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1974. 160 pp. The Symposium was held from 30th October to 1st November, 1974, and the papers include an interesting range of subjects in coal-mining operations, covering the improvements achieved to date, current practice, and required development for the future. Salamon, M.D.G., and Oravecz, K. 1. Rock Mechanics in Coal Mining. 119 pp. NIM reports Report no. 1822 Stability constants and linear free-energy relations for the platimtm-group metals. (22nd Oct., 1976). Report no. 1852 A revised method for the dissolution of platiniferous materials by the sealed-tube technique. (18th Oct., 1976). Report no. 1828 y-picoline adducts of the nickel, copper, and zinc chelates of 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone. (26th Nov., 1976) Report no. 1847 A pilot-plant investigation of a kinetic model for flotation.(19th Nov., 1976)

Jan 2, 1977

The Proceedings of the above Symposium have been edited and published by the Symposium Committee. The Symposium was sponsored by the Australian Coal Association, the Joint Coal Board, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. The Symposium was very well attended, with presentations from fourteen countries, including all the major coal-producing countries of the world. The Proceedings are presented in two parts: the Symposium Part and the Workshop Part. The Symposium Part deals basically with the theoretical aspects of outbursts and high-gas emissions in mines, while the Workshop Part is more practically oriented and describes case studies, and the management systems, and drilling technologies used in underground mines.

Jan 1, 1996

Book review AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY REVIEW FOR 1970 The Review is prepared by the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, and gives an interesting and up-to-date account of the Australian minerals industry.

British Mining Fields, by J. E. Metcalf. Published by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, London, 1969. Price 50s. (Students, 30s.). A 100 years or so ago Britain's mining industry led the world in the production of coal and base metals. Although she still maintains a sizeable-and, under the circumstances, remarkably progressive-coal mining industry, her production of most other base minerals has long since been dwarfed by mining fields in the Americas Africa, Australia and the U.S.S.R. Nevertheless the story of mining in Britain is of wider interest than the present scale of operations there might suggest, if only because the domestic British mining industry has in terms of finance, technology and manpower been the fons et origo of many highly productive mining fields outside Britain, including the Witwatersrand goldfields. British Mining Fields was published by the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy to give delegates attending the Ninth Commonwealth Mining and Metallurgical Conference a succinct account of mining in Britain. The main emphasis is on underground mining of base minerals-treated regionally-with separate chapters on coal and gypsum. The author strikes an admirable balance between historical aspects, geological origin and environment of ore deposits, mining methods and economic factors, and provides a few key references for those who wish to make deeper studies. This is exactly the sort of booklet one often wishes were available on South African mining.

Introduction to high temperature oxidation of metals, by N. Birks and G. H. Meier, London, Edward Arnold, 1983. 19S pp. R30,25. Reviewers: M. B. Cortie and G. G. Garrett Seam gas drainage with particular reference to the working seam, edited by A. J. Hargraves. Woollongong, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. 370 pp. $A30. Reviewer: C. J. Fauconnier New books Solvent extraction Part I, by G. M. Ritcey and A. Ashbrook. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1983. Elektronishche Steuerungen und Mikroprozessoren im Bergbau. Sicherheit und Zuverlassigkeit Environmental impact control. Philosophical and procedural guidelines for the planning professions Mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. Reagents in the minerals industry.

Jan 1, 1984

By A. K. Biswas

Reviewer: R. H. Eric This edition is organized in twenty-three chapters, and contains exactly 500 pages including three appendices and an index. The first and second editions were published in 1976 and 1980 respectively, and both contained nineteen chapters. The second edition brought the operating data and process descriptions up to date. The third edition covers comprehensively the changes that have taken place in the primary copper industry over the past two decades. For example, reverberatory furnaces now make up only a third of the major primary smelting furnaces, compared with about three-quarters in the 1970s. Control of air and water pollution and recycling are given much more emphasis, along with novel and emerging technologies.

Jan 1, 1995

By Herbert Clark Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover

DIGGING of veins I have written of, and the timbering of shafts, tunnels, drifts, and other excavations, and the art of surveying. I will now speak first of all, of the iron tools with which veins and rocks are broken, then of the buckets into which the lumps of earth, rock, metal, and other excavated materials are thrown, in order that they may be drawn, conveyed, or carried out. Also, I will speak of the water vessels and drains, then of the machines of different kinds,1 and lastly of the maladies of miners. And while all these matters are being described accurately, many methods of work will be explained. There are certain iron tools which the miners designate by names of their own, and besides these, there are wedges, iron blocks, iron plates, hammers, crowbars, pikes, picks, hoes, and shovels. Of those which are especially referred to as " iron tools " there are four varieties, which are different from one another in length or thickness, but not in shape, for the upper end of all of them is broad and square, so that it can be struck by the

Jan 1, 1950

By Herbert Clark Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover

SINCE the Sixth Book has described the iron tools, the vessels and the machines used in mink, this Book will describe the methods of assaying1 ores; because it is desirable to first test them in order that the material mined may be advantageously smelted, or that the dross may be purged away and the metal made pure. Although writers have mentioned such tests, yet none of them have set down the directions for performing them, wherefore it is no wonder that those who come later have written nothing on the subject. By tests of this kind miners can determine with certainty whether ores contain any metal in them or not ; or if it has already been indicated that the ore contains one or more metals, the tests show whether it is much or little ; the miners also ascertain by such tests the method by which the metal can be separated from that part of the ore devoid of it ; and further, by these tests, they determine that part in which there is much metal from that part in which there is little. Unless these tests have been carefully applied before the metals are melted out, the ore cannot be smelted without great loss to the owners, for the parts which do not easily melt in the fire carry the metals off with them or consume them. In the last case, they pass off with the fumes ; in the other case they are mixed with the slag and furnace accretions, and in such event the owners lose the labour which they have spent in preparing the furnaces and the crucibles, and further, it is necessary for them to incur fresh expenditure for fluxes and other things. Metals, when they have been melted out, are usually assayed in order that we may ascertain what pro- portion of silver is in a centumpondium of copper or lead, or what quantity of gold is in one libra of silver ; and, on the other hand, what proportion of copper or lead is contained in a centumpondium of silver, or what quantity of silver is contained in one libra of gold. And from this we can calculate whether it will be worth while to separate the precious metals from the base metals, or not. Further, a test of this kind shows whether coins are good or are debased ; and readily detects silver, if the coiners have mixed more than is lawful with the gold ; or copper, if the coiners have alloyed with the gold or silver more of it than is allowable. I will explain all these methods with the utmost care that I can.

Jan 1, 1950

By Herbert Clark Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover

QUESTIONS of assaying were explained in the last Book, and I have now come to a greater task, that is, to the description of how we extract the metals. First of all I will explain the method of preparing the ore1 ; for since Nature usually creates metals in an impure state, mixed with earth, stones, and solidified juices, it is necessary to separate most of these impurities from the ores as far as can be, before they are smelted, and therefore I will now describe the methods by which the ores are sorted, broken with hammers, burnt, crushed with stamps, ground into powder, sifted, washed, roasted, and calcineda.

Jan 1, 1950

By Herbert Clark Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover

DIFFERENT methods of parting gold from silver, and, on the other hand, silver from gold, were discussed in the last book; also the separation of copper from the latter and further, of lead from gold as well as from silver ; and, lastly, the methods for refining the two precious metals. Now I will speak of the methods by which silver must be separated from copper, and likewise from iron.1 The officina, or the building necessary for the purposes and use of those who separate silver from copper, is constructed in this manner. First, four long walls are built, of which the first, which is parallel with the bank of a stream, and the second, are both two hundred and sixty-four feet long. The second, however, stops at one hundred and fifty-one feet, and after, as it were, a break for a length of twenty-four feet, it continues again until it is of a length equal to the first wall. The third wall is one hundred and twenty feet long, starting at a point opposite the sixty-seventh foot of the other walls, and reaching to their one hundred and eighty-sixth foot.

Jan 1, 1950

By Herbert Clark Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover

PREVIOUSLY I have dealt with the methods of separating silver from copper. There now remains the portion which treats of solidified juices ; and whereas they might be considered as alien to things metallic, nevertheless, the reasons why they should not be separated from it I have explained in the second book. Solidified juices are either prepared from waters in which nature or art has infused them, or they are produced from the liquid juices themselves, or from stony minerals. Sagacious people, at first observing the waters of some lakes to be naturally full of juices which thickened on being dried up by the heat of the sun and thus became solidified juices, drew such waters into other places, or diverted them into low-lying places adjoining hills, so that the heat of the sun should likewise cause them to condense. Subsequently, because they observed that in this wise the solidified juices could be made only in summer, and then not in all countries, but only in hot and temperate regions in which it seldom rains in summer, they boiled them in vessels over a fire until they began to thicken. In this manner, at all times of the year, in all regions, even the coldest, solidified juices could be obtained from solutions of such juices, whether made by nature or by art. Afterward, when they saw juices drip from some roasted stones, they cooked these in pots in order to obtain solidified juices in this wise also. It is worth the trouble to learn the pro- portions and the methods by which these are made. I will therefore began with salt, which is made from water either salty by nature, or by the labour of man, or else from a solution of salt, or from lye, likewise salty. Water which is salty by nature, is condensed and converted into salt in salt-pits by the heat of the sun, or else by the heat of a fire in pans or pts or trenches. That which is made salty by art, is also condensed by fire and changed into salt. There should be as many salt-pits dug as the circumstance of the place permits, but there should not be more made than can be used, although we ought to make as much salt as we can sell. The depth of salt-pits should be moderate, and the bottom should be level, so that all the water is evaporated from the salt by the heat of the sun. The salt-pits should first be encrusted with salt, so that they may not suck up the water. The method of pouring or leading sea-water into salt-pits is very old, and is still in use in many places. The method is not less old, but less common, to pour well-water into salt-pits, as was done in Babylon, for which Pliny is the authority, and in Cappadocia, where they used not only well-water, but also spring-water. In all hot countries salt-water and lake-water are conducted, poured or carried into salt-pits, and, being dried by the heat of the sun, are converted into

Jan 1, 1950

Iron Ore Resources of the World (Die Eisenersvorrate der Welt)_ By G. Einicke. Verlag Stahleisen, Dusseldorf, 1950. 418 p., with 192 tables and an atlas volume containing 100 p. of reaps. 66 German Marks.-A notable work in which the latest available information on iron ore deposits has been compiled by diligent work, continent by continent, country by country. The author reveals the effect of geological formations, iron content of ore, accessability, cost of transportation, political and economic considerations. Ore beds of importance to the German iron and steel industry are given more space than others. The bibliography contains almost 250 references. A tragic comic feature is the author's complaint that as soon as a map of iron ore resources of a country has been completed, the country's boundaries are changed. Reviewed by W. Trinks, Carnegie Institute of Technology. Industrial Research Laboratories of the United States. National Research Council, Washington, D. C. Ninth Edition. 1950. 445 p. $5.-Contains information on the research laboratories of 2845 industrial and commercial organizations, including names of research executives, location of labs, types of activity, whether any consulting services are offered. There are two appendices, one of which lists data on government labo ratories which cooperate with industry, and the :)ibex naming universities and colleges offering research services to industry.

Jan 2, 1951

By E. B. Branson

Introduction to Geology, by E. B. Branson, W. A. Tarr, and W. D. Keller, revised-by Carl C. Branson. McGraw-Hill, 1952. $5.50.-Dealing with physical and historical geology, the book has been revised from an earlier edition. An attempt has been made to eliminate unnecessary detail in discussing processes and history. Revisions bring technical and statistical data up-to-date, and follow suggestions by teachers who used earlier editions. The book carries an eye witness account of the severe earthquake in Assam, India, in 1950 and the story of Paricutin and other major examples of volcanism. Charts summarize chemical weathering, and the results of metamorphisms. The book also contains many new illustrations, including aerial photographs. A History of Phelps Dodge 1834-1950, by Robert Glass Cleland. Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. $4.00.-The book traces the growth of Phelps Dodge from the day Anson Greene Phelps opened a small saddle shop in Hartford, Conn., to the present day. As the country grew, so did Phelps Dodge. The company took part in large affairs from its very beginning. It bought and sold, exported and imported, built factories and railroads, and widened its scope of operations economically and geographically. Entrance of Phelps Dodge into copper mining and the gradual giving up of other interests in favor of the new venture is traced.

Jan 1, 1952