Review of Literature on Effects of Breathing Dusts with Special Reference to Silicosis (open access)

Review of Literature on Effects of Breathing Dusts with Special Reference to Silicosis

From Introduction: "This bulletin is an attempt to assemble information in convenient form on effects of breathing dusts, largely in the mining and allied industries. The literature on this subject is so extensive that no attempt has been made to include all published material or all types of dust disease but only to assemble some of the more outstanding data on several aspects of the subject, especially with reference to silicosis."
Date: 1937
Creator: Harrington, D. & Davenport, Sara J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Smelting Ores in the Electric Furnace (open access)

Smelting Ores in the Electric Furnace

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the electric smelting of nonferrous ores. As stated in the introduction, "it is the purpose of the present paper to survey the technical and economic changes that have taken place and to determine whether electric smelting of nonferrous ores offers any more promise today than 20 years ago" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: October 1937
Creator: Dean, Reginald S. & von Bernewitz, M. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occurrence, Properties, and Preparation of Limestone and Chalk for Whiting (open access)

Occurrence, Properties, and Preparation of Limestone and Chalk for Whiting

From Introduction: "To encourage the domestic industry, the Bureau of Mines in 1931 undertook a study of the preparation of whiting from American raw materials and a comparison of the finished products with European whitings."
Date: 1937
Creator: Wilson, Hewitt & Skinner, Kenneth G.
System: The UNT Digital Library