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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
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Geophysical Delineation Of Structure In Tunino ExplorationsBy 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
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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
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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
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IC 7143 Annual Report Of Research And Technologic Work On Coal, Fiscal Year 1940 - IntroductionBy 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
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Geology of the Getchell MineBy 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
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IC 7130 Testing Respiratory Protective Equipment For Approval ? IntroductionBy 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
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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
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Application of Rapid Current Surges to Electric Transient ProspectingBy 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
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A Preliminary Report on the Application of the Mass Spectrometer to Problems in the Petroleum IndustryBy 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
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Pyrophyllite Dust-Its Effect and ControlBy 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
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Geophysical Investigation at Steeprock LakeBy 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
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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
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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
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IC 7107 Cutting And Polishing Stones ? Purpose Of This ReportBy 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
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RI 3500 Progress Reports - Metallurgical Division ? 38. Electrometallurgical Investigations ? IntroductionBy 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
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Deformation of Single Crystals of Lead Part III - Effect of Various Factors on the Creep Rate Part IIIIn 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
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The Sulphide Lake Gold-Bearing Belt, Lac La-Ronge District, SaskatchewanBy 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
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IC 7128 Construction Of The Bingham-Copperfield Vehicular Tunnel ? IntroductionBy 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
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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