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  • AIME
    Papers - Ventilation and Dust Prevention in the Butte Mines (T.P. 969)

    By A. S. Richardson

    Ventilation of the Butte mines has long been a rather difficult problem because of the natural high temperature of the rock. With increase* in mining depth, higher rock temperatures have been encounte

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    Geophysical Delineation Of Structure In Tunino Explorations

    By Sherwin Kelly

    The prime objective of geophysical exploration is to promote the economical and rapid dis-covery of mineral or oil deposits of commercial value. To a few this concept as applied in min-ing may signify

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    The Coalescence Process for Producing Semifabricated Oxygen-free Copper (6d2e433c-5d45-490b-981d-557a8032439c)

    By John Tyssowski

    IN 1925, Harry Howard Stout, then metallurgist for Phelps Dodge Corporation, while investigating the cleaning of cathode copper by various gases at elevated temper-atures below the melting point of th

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    Production Engineering - Radial Filtration of Drilling Muds (T. P. 1112, with discussion)

    By Milton Williams

    It is generally recognized that fluid is lost from rotary drilling muds to permeable strata during normal drilling operations;1,2-3 but that this fluid is the filtrate from the mud, rather than the mu

    Jan 1, 1940

  • NIOSH
    IC 7143 Annual Report Of Research And Technologic Work On Coal, Fiscal Year 1940 - Introduction

    By Arno C. Fieldner

    This is the fifth of a series of annual reports4/ of technologic investigations conducted by the Bureau of Mines on the occurrence, properties, mining, preparation, and uses of coal. The research of t

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    Geology of the Getchell Mine

    By Roy Hardy

    THE Getchell mine is a comparatively recent discovery in the old Potosi mining district, Humboldt County, Nevada, a district organized in the seventies and eighties, in which some prospecting was done

    Jan 1, 1940

  • NIOSH
    IC 7130 Testing Respiratory Protective Equipment For Approval ? Introduction

    By H. H. Schrenk

    The purpose of respiratory protective equipment is to prevent the inhalation of harmful or objectionable atmospheres. Although constituents or contaminants that may render an atmosphere irrespirable o

    Jan 1, 1940

  • NIOSH
    RI 3505 Relationship Of Ash-Fusion Temperatures Of Coal And Coke ? Introduction (6f500829-9d2d-49ca-b0c0-4315af1a4067)

    By D. A. Reynolds

    A few studies on the relationship of the fusion temperature of the ash on coke to that of the corresponding coal have been made on commercial high-temperature cokes. H. J. Rose3/ in 1921 compared the

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    Application of Rapid Current Surges to Electric Transient Prospecting

    By Gifford White

    CONSIDERABLE attention has been directed in recent years to methods of electric prospecting other than the conventional direct-current tech-niques. It has been extensively recognized that electrical d

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    A Preliminary Report on the Application of the Mass Spectrometer to Problems in the Petroleum Industry

    By Herbert Hoover

    This paper is in the nature of a rough preliminary report on the progress that has been made in the application of the mass spectrometer to various problems arising in the petroleum industry. A few ye

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    Pyrophyllite Dust-Its Effect and Control

    By M. F. Trice

    PYROPHYLLITE is a hydrous aluminum silicate (A12Si4010(OH)2)1 that occurs in both the foliated and the massive forms. The foliated variety resembles talc in that it has a greasy feel, a pearly luster,

    Jan 1, 1940

  • CIM
    Geophysical Investigation at Steeprock Lake

    By Arthur Brant

    STEEPROCK LAKE (Figure 1) lies about two miles north of Atikokan, a village approximately one hundred and forty miles west of Fort William and one hundred miles east of Fort Frances on the Canadian Na

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    Papers - Tensile Deformation of Critically Oriented Brass Crystals (T. P. 1149)

    By H. l. Burghoff

    During the course of preparation of crystals of alpha brass for an investigation of their creep characteristics, a number of critically oriented crystals were produced. In each of these specimens, Po,

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    Papers - Safety Practices of the Koppers Coal Company (T. P. 1022, with discussion)

    By L. C. Campbell

    The purpose of any accident-prevention program is the curtailment or entire elimination of injuries and fatalities. It is a job that is never finished in the coal-mining industry. Day by day, on shift

    Jan 1, 1940

  • NIOSH
    IC 7107 Cutting And Polishing Stones ? Purpose Of This Report

    By M. W. Von Bernewitz

    Because the cutting and polishing of stones are parts of the work of the Bureau of Mines in its study of rocks and minerals and in the determination of specimens sent in for identification, it was dec

    Jan 1, 1940

  • NIOSH
    RI 3500 Progress Reports - Metallurgical Division ? 38. Electrometallurgical Investigations ? Introduction

    By J. Koster

    [Boron is an element whose metallurgical possibilities never have been investigated thoroughly, probably because of the difficulties experienced in the preparation of elemental boron and its intermeta

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AUSIMM
    Deformation of Single Crystals of Lead Part III - Effect of Various Factors on the Creep Rate Part III

    In spite of the many contributions that have been made to our knowledge of the creep properties of polycrystalline lead, the precise influence of various factors on these properties is not yet fully u

    Jan 1, 1940

  • CIM
    The Sulphide Lake Gold-Bearing Belt, Lac La-Ronge District, Saskatchewan

    By J. B. Mawdsley

    A LITILE north of the geographic centre of the Province of Saskatchewan, 150 miles north of the city of Prince Albert, is a narrow green-stone and sedimentary belt of pronounced structural characteris

    Jan 1, 1940

  • NIOSH
    IC 7128 Construction Of The Bingham-Copperfield Vehicular Tunnel ? Introduction

    By L. S. Breckon

    This paper describes the methods and equipment used by the Utah Copper Co. in constructing a vehicular tunnel at Bingham Canyon, Utah, Completion and use of this tunnel for vehicular and pedestrian tr

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    Structure And Ore Deposition At Cartersville, Georgia (fcc58619-1be0-4dfd-90fc-05b27a11b771)

    By Thomas L. Kesler

    THE Cartersville mining district, 35 miles northwest of Atlanta, Ga., has been of varying but continuous importance in the southern mineral industry during the past century. Noted chiefly for its prod

    Jan 1, 1940