The Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association and Its Awards (open access)

The Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association and Its Awards

Report discussing history and purpose of Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association along with describing the awards issued by the association.
Date: 1940
Creator: Harrington, D.; Pedlow, Louise & Brown, Anna P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lead and Zinc Mining and Milling in the United States: Current Practices and Costs (open access)

Lead and Zinc Mining and Milling in the United States: Current Practices and Costs

From Object and Scope of Bulletin: "The purpose of this paper to combine in a single volume discussions of the winning of lead and zinc ores from the mines and of the milling of the ores with descriptions of practices at typical properties in the United States."
Date: 1935
Creator: Jackson, Charles F.; Knaebel, John B. & Wright, C. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report of the Mining Division, Fiscal Year 1941 (open access)

Annual Report of the Mining Division, Fiscal Year 1941

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the annual study of the work done by the Mining Division. Investigations, operations, and projects completed during the fiscal year are discussed. This report includes tables, and photographs.
Date: November 1941
Creator: Jackson, Charles F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historical Documentation of Major Coal-Mine Disasters in the United States not Classified as Explosions of Gas or Dust: 1846-1962 (open access)

Historical Documentation of Major Coal-Mine Disasters in the United States not Classified as Explosions of Gas or Dust: 1846-1962

From Summary: "This publication lists and provides brief accounts of the major disasters not classified as explosions of gas or dust that have occurred in the coal mines of the United States from the earliest times to the present."
Date: 1963
Creator: Keenan, Charles M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prospecting and Mining of Copper Ore at Santa Rita, New Mexico (open access)

Prospecting and Mining of Copper Ore at Santa Rita, New Mexico

Report discussing techniques for the mining of large masses of low-grade ores such as though found in Santa Rita, NM. It is hoped that a study of the methods used at Santa Rita will help engineers in other industries who may have to handle large masses of material.
Date: September 1916
Creator: MacDonald, Donald F. & Enzian, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sampling and Estimation of Ore Deposits (open access)

Sampling and Estimation of Ore Deposits

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the sampling and analyses of ore deposits. Methods, problems, and results are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: 1932
Creator: Jackson, Charles Freeman & Knaebel, John B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sampling and Estimation of Ore Deposits (open access)

Sampling and Estimation of Ore Deposits

Report discussing methods of sampling and estimation of ore deposits employed at a large number of mines and under a wide range of conditions in connection with the exploration and mining of ore deposits. Does not include methods employed in ore-dressing and metallurgical plants.
Date: 1934
Creator: Jackson, Charles F. & Knaebel, John B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal-Mining Practice (open access)

Metal-Mining Practice

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines over practices of metal mining. As stated in the introduction, "this bulletin summarizes mining practices of a large number of metal mines in the United states and foreign countries. The adaptation of mining methods best suited to the various natural conditions in mines is discussed, and comparative costs are presented" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1939
Creator: Jackson, Charles Freeman & Hedges, Joseph Harold
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal-Mining Practice (open access)

Metal-Mining Practice

Report discussing mining practices of a large number of metal mines in the United States and foreign countries and the adaptation of mining methods best suited to the various natural conditions in mines and their comparative costs. This bulletin is concerned primarily with mining or ore production and discusses milling and marketing only in brief.
Date: 1939
Creator: Jackson, Charles F. & Hedges, J. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Operation of a Four-Ton-Per-Hour Gold and Silver Ore-Sampling Plant (open access)

Design and Operation of a Four-Ton-Per-Hour Gold and Silver Ore-Sampling Plant

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the operations of silver and gold ore-sampling plants. The facility designs and operation methods are presented. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: June 1936
Creator: Gardner, E. D. & Leddell, W. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cold-Mold Arc Melting and Casting (open access)

Cold-Mold Arc Melting and Casting

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines providing updates and additional information related to cold-mold arc melting and casting. Abstract: "This bulletin reviews the historical background of the cold-mold arc-melting technology, with specific references to the development that led to homogeneous zirconium ingots. Descriptions are given of modern production arc-furnaces for vacuum melting of both exotic and conventional metals. Besides zirconium, specific data are given for production of chromium, thorium, and copper. The development of the skull-casting technique for titanium is detailed, and the application of the technique to such refractory metals as molybdenum and tungsten is described. Factors of operation of the apparatus and furnace design are considered" (p. 1).
Date: 1968
Creator: Beall, Robert A. & Hedges, Joseph Harold
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnolia Oil Field, Columbia County, Arkansas: Part 1. Petroleum-Engineering Study; Part 2. Derivation and Application of Material-Balance Equations (open access)

Magnolia Oil Field, Columbia County, Arkansas: Part 1. Petroleum-Engineering Study; Part 2. Derivation and Application of Material-Balance Equations

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on studies conducted at the Magnolia oil fields in Columbia County, Arkansas. History, geology, and methods are presented. This report includes tables, graphs, maps, and illustrations.
Date: September 1943
Creator: Carpenter, Charles B.; Schroeder, H. J. & Cook, Alton B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cold-Mold Arc Melting and Casting (open access)

Cold-Mold Arc Melting and Casting

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines discussing the cold-mold arc-melting technology and techniques. As stated in the introduction, "the objectives of this book are twofold: To accumulate and update Bureau of Mines contributions to cold-mold arc melting and casting, and, by addition of pertinent chapters, to provide production melters and researchers with the best possible view of the overall technique" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1968
Creator: Beall, Robert A.; Caputo, F.; Hayes, E. T.; Asai, G.; Roberson, A. H.; Clites, P. G. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operation of Electrolytic Manganese Pilot Plant: Boulder City, Nevada (open access)

Operation of Electrolytic Manganese Pilot Plant: Boulder City, Nevada

From Introduction: "This report records a chapter in the history of the development of an electrolytic manganese industry in the United States."
Date: 1946
Creator: Jacobs, J. H.; Hunter, J. W.; Knickerbocker, R. G.; Yarroll, W. H.; Churchward, P. E.; Lewis, R. W. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The History and Development of Gold Dredging in Montana: with a Chapter on Placer-Mining Methods and Operating Costs (open access)

The History and Development of Gold Dredging in Montana: with a Chapter on Placer-Mining Methods and Operating Costs

From Introduction: "Although the purpose of this paper is to describe gold dredging in Montana, a brief mention of some early appliances used in New Zealand, Australia, and California may serve as a world-connecting link in our consideration of the development of gold dredging."
Date: 1916
Creator: Jennings, Hennen
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Preliminary Report on Uranium, Radium, and Vanadium (open access)

A Preliminary Report on Uranium, Radium, and Vanadium

From Introduction: "This bulletin presents a summary of available information regarding the sources of uranium, radium, and vanadium, the methods used in treating the ores, and the uses of the the finished products. In particular the paper describes the ores found in the United States, giving especial attention to those characteristics of the ores and the conditions of their occurrence that affect mining and treatment."
Date: 1916
Creator: Moore, Richard B. & Kithil, Karl L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Possibilities for the Commercial Utilization of Peat (open access)

Possibilities for the Commercial Utilization of Peat

From Introduction: "The characteristics of the numerous varieties and types of peat and their geographic distribution in the United States have been discussed at length in those publications. This report therefore considers these topics only in their relation to the subjects specified in the following act (40 Stat. 1154) authorizing the investigation described herein."
Date: 1926
Creator: Odell, W. W. & Hood, O. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mining of Thin Coal Beds in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania (open access)

Mining of Thin Coal Beds in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on thin coal beds of the anthracite region in Pennsylvania. Results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1927
Creator: Ashmead, Dever C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Literature on Dusts (open access)

Review of Literature on Dusts

From Introduction: "Problems connected with incidence, effects, determination, and control of dusts are still much before the public, although more information is available to the layman than when Bulletin 400, of which this publication is a revision, was issued in 1937. This revision includes data that have accumulated since 1937 and some that appeared previous thereto but were not available to the authors at that time."
Date: 1950
Creator: Forbes, J. J.; Davenport, Sara J. & Morgis, Genevieve G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molybdenum; Its Ores and their Concentration with a Discussion of Markets, Prices, and Uses (open access)

Molybdenum; Its Ores and their Concentration with a Discussion of Markets, Prices, and Uses

From Scope and Purpose of Investigation: "The direct purpose of the bulletin is, on the one hand, to prove to possible consumers of molybdenum that the element is not as rare as commonly supposed, and that this country possesses many deposits of low-grade ore from which large supplies may be derived, and on the other hand, to prove to present and prospective producers of molybdenum that there is a latent market for their product in the alloy-steel trade, which needs only the assurance of steady supplies for a considerable development."
Date: 1916
Creator: Horton, Frederick W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
First Organization and Work of the Coal-Mine Inspection Division, Bureau of Mines (open access)

First Organization and Work of the Coal-Mine Inspection Division, Bureau of Mines

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the organization of the Coal-Mine Inspection Division. The inspection procedures and work accomplished are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, photographs, and a map.
Date: June 1943
Creator: United States. Bureau of Mines.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings: Fifth International Conference of Directors of Mine Safety Research (open access)

Proceedings: Fifth International Conference of Directors of Mine Safety Research

From Reinstatement of Fifth Conference: "The program of the Fifth Conference is reproduced below. Of the time allotted for each paper, about half was used for presentation and half for discussion. Out of this developed the program that is the subject of this publication."
Date: 1950
Creator: Greenwald, H. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coal Mining in Europe: A Study of Practices in Different Coal Formations and Under Various Economic and Regulatory Conditions Compared with Those in the United States (open access)

Coal Mining in Europe: A Study of Practices in Different Coal Formations and Under Various Economic and Regulatory Conditions Compared with Those in the United States

From Introduction: "The major purpose of this bulletin, as indicated in the preface by Dr. John W. Finch, Director of the Bureau of Mines, is to give a critical review of the coal-mining methods used in the principal producing countries of Europe, to describe the reasons underlying the adoption of these methods, and to contrast them with coal-mining methods employed in the United States."
Date: 1939
Creator: Rice, George S. & Hartmann, Irving
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry (open access)

A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry

From Introduction: "This glossary is published by the Bureau of Mines as a contribution to the mining literature in the belief that it will fill a long-felt need. It contains about 20,000 terms; these include both technical and purely local terms related to metal mining, coal mining, quarrying, petroleum, and natural gas, and metallurgical works; names of useful, important, and common minerals and rocks; and geological terms. It presents in one comprehensive volume the available standard, technical terms relating to the mining and mineral industry, as well as provincialisms that have been or are now in use in English-speaking countries."
Date: 1920
Creator: Fay, Albert H.
System: The UNT Digital Library