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Construction Methods, Cushman Tunnel No. 2
By F. E. ROGERS
CUSHMAN TUNNEL No. 2 is adjacent to the Hood Canal, near potlatch, Wash. It is 17 ft. inside .diameter, about 13,000 ft., or two and one- half, miles in length, and is a part of the second unit of the
Jan 1, 1931
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IC 8049 Bibliography Of Bureau Of Mines Investigations Of Coal And Its Products, 1910-60 - 1. General - Congressional Publications
1. BOYD, JAMES. Statement on the Investigation of Natural Resources. Hearings before National Re-sources Economic Subcommittee, Committee on Public Lands, U.S. Senate, 80th Cong., 1st sess., on Invest
Jan 1, 1962
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IC 8125 Mica - A Materials Survey - Introduction And Summary
By Milford L. Skow
MICA is a group name for a number of complex hydrous aluminum silicate minerals that have a sheet or platy structure and extremely variable and complex compositions containing various metallic ions, p
Jan 1, 1962
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IC 7181 Status Of Safety In Mining ? Introduction
By D. Harrington
The mining industry of the United States has-long been severely criticized because of its high rate of accident occurrence, net only as compared with other major industries-in the United States but al
Jan 1, 1941
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The witchcraft and logic of gold pricing – politics, inflation, speculation, and the value of the dollar are all contributing factors
By Thomas D. Kaufmann
Introduction What drives the price of gold? Supply and demand, of course. But in ways far different from the forces that drive the prices of other major metals, such as steel, aluminum, and copper. G
Jan 9, 1987
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RI 3937 Exploration of Stoddard Fluorite Mine, Cheshire Co., NH
By J. D. Bardill
"The Stoddard mine, Cheshire County, N. H., was explored by the Bureau of Mines in 1944 as a source of the strategic fluorite. It was reported that the vein persisted in the bottom of old workings and
Sep 1, 1946
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RI 4498 Pilot-Plant Production Of Steel From Sponge Iron
By W. W. Stephens
As part of the Bureau of Mines program directed toward more effective utilization of the mineral resources of the United States, a number of processes for production of sponge iron have been investiga
Jan 1, 1949
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Commodity Data Summaries 1977 - An Up-To-Date Summary Of 95 Mineral Commodities ? Aluminum
Domestic Production and Use: In 1976, 12 companies operated 31 primary aluminum reduction plants, with 3 firms accounting for 63% of production capacity. Washington, Oregon, and Montana accounted for
Jan 1, 1977
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Catchment-Scale Water Modelling and its Role in Risk Management during Mining Exploration
By H He, S Tillotson, S Gibbons, J Shaw
"Water evaluation and management during mining exploration and operational activities is crucial to minimise direct and indirect operational costs and also in delivering mining companies the less tang
Nov 26, 2013
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Coatings To Retard The Formation Of Tarnish On Silver And Silver Alloys.
By M Scott, J J. McEwan
Silver and silver alloys tarnish readily by the formation of tarnish on the surface when exposed to a wide range of sulphur-containing atmospheres. This tarnish is unsightly and undesirable and can be
Jan 1, 2006
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RI 4493 The Leadville Drainage Tunnel Lake County, Colo.
By Robert A. Elgin
The Leadville mining-district (fig. 1) covers approximately 8 square miles adjacent to Leadville, the county seat of Lake County, Colo. It is famous for its large production of rich ores containing zi
Jan 1, 1949
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Gold: Its Production and Marketing
By F. W. Bradley
GOLD is a large subject. One could talk about its geological or mineralogical occurrences, prospect- i11.g for it, mining of .it, its metallurgy or its marketing; but I have decided to limit my discus
Jan 1, 1932
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RI 8837 Stratification in Water Quality in Inundated Anthracite Mines, Eastern Pennsylvania
By K. J. Ladwig
The Bureau of Mines conducted a field investigation of the water quality in inundated underground coal mines in the Northern Anthracite Field, eastern Pennsylvania. Water samples were collected at mul
Jan 1, 1984
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The Mineral Industries Of Africa - Introduction (eca0325c-507d-41f8-9ff9-dbf69a686deb)
The 53 countries that constituted Africa in 1992 accounted for a significant portion of total world output of a number of mineral commodities. However, the continent's total output for a number o
Jan 1, 1994
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IC 9121 International Regulation Of Diesel Engine Use Underground: A Country-By-Country Synopsis
By Robert W. Waytulonis
Mining regulations pertaining to the use of diesel engines were solicited from foreign countries with mining operations by the Bureau of Mines. Responses were received from 27 countries; the informati
Jan 1, 1987
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OFR-2(1)-81 Efficiency And Service Life Of Wire Rope Terminations
By F. Matanzo
[Nine wire rope terminations were pull tested and fatigue tested to destruction to measure the termination efficiency and relative fatigue life. The terminations were selected on the basis off mine si
Jan 1, 1978
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RI 3715 Engineering Study of Rodessa Oil Filed in In Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas
By R. K. Guthrie, H. B. Hill
"INTRODUCTION The Rodessa oil field in Marion and Cass Counties, Tex., Miller County, Ark., and Caddo Parish, La., was discovered in August 1930, when a well drilled to a depth of 5,506 feet in Caddo
Aug 1, 1943
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Expansion of Uranium Milling at Denison Mines Limited
By E. LaRocque
"Long term contracts requiring delivery of 6,000,000 pounds of U308 per year to its customers have made it necessary for Denison Mines to expand its milling capacity from 7,100 tons per day to 15,000
Jan 1, 1982
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Mineral Commodity Summaries 1985 - An Up-To-Date Summary Of 87 Nonfuel Mineral Commodities ? Aluminum
1. Domestic Production and Use: In 1984, 12 companies operated 27 primary aluminum reduction plants, with 3 firms accounting for 57% of production. Washington, Oregon, and Montana accounted for 35% of
Jan 1, 1985
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Coal pillar loading systems
By J. N. Van der Merwe, D. P. Roberts
The two components of pillar design formula being used in South Africa are pillar strength and pillar load. While considerable effort has been directed to the determination of pillar strength, the oth
Jan 1, 2003