Iron Oxide Mineral Pigments of the United States (open access)

Iron Oxide Mineral Pigments of the United States

From Summary: "This report reviews the occurrence of mineral pigments and allied iron ores and the nomenclature and common methods of classifying and testing many commercial mineral pigments used in this country."
Date: 1933
Creator: Wilson, Hewitt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Industries Survey of the United States: California, Kern County, Mojave District: The Golden Queen and other Mines of the Mojave District, California (open access)

Mineral Industries Survey of the United States: California, Kern County, Mojave District: The Golden Queen and other Mines of the Mojave District, California

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the mineral production of mines in Kern County, California. Mining and milling methods of these mines are presented. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: January 1937
Creator: Julihn, C. E. & Horton, F. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bureau of Mines Multiple-Diaphragm Recording Subsurface-Pressure Gage (open access)

Bureau of Mines Multiple-Diaphragm Recording Subsurface-Pressure Gage

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the measuring of temperature and pressure in oil and gas wells. Descriptions of the instrumentation developed and used for these measurements are presented. This report includes tables, graphs, and illustrations.
Date: November 1935
Creator: Berwald, W. B.; Buss, H. A. & Reistle, C. E., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanical Equipment Used in the Drilling and Production of Oil and Gas Wells in the Oklahoma City Field (open access)

Mechanical Equipment Used in the Drilling and Production of Oil and Gas Wells in the Oklahoma City Field

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines discussing the mechanical equipment used in oil and gas wells of the Oklahoma City field. As stated in the introduction, "this paper presents the results of a study devoted chiefly to new equipment that has been developed to meet the requirements of drilling and producing operations in the Oklahoma City field and that has been accepted by drilling contractors and operators" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1934
Creator: Wade, Gustav, 1885-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Production History on the Salt Flat and Other Fault Fields of East Central Texas (open access)

Development and Production History on the Salt Flat and Other Fault Fields of East Central Texas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the Salt Flat fields in East Central Texas. As stated in the introduction, "this report deals with the development and production history of the Salt Flat field and gives comparative data on five outstanding fault fields. Two of these fields are producing from limestone and three from sandstone reservoirs" (p. 2-3). This report includes tables, maps, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: March 1931
Creator: Hill, Harry Blackburn; Bauserman, E. V. H. & Carpenter, C. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1935 (open access)

Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1935

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines covering accidents that happened in metal mines located in the United States including statistics for injuries, fatalities, kinds and causes of accidents, and operational data, such as number of mine workers and shifts worked.
Date: 1938
Creator: Adams, W. W. & Kolhos, M. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1936 (open access)

Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1936

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines covering accidents that happened in metal mines located in the United States including statistics for injuries, fatalities, kinds and causes of accidents, and operational data, such as number of mine workers and shifts worked.
Date: 1939
Creator: Adams, W. W. & Kolhos, M. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1930 (open access)

Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1930

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines covering accidents that happened in metal mines located in the United States including statistics for injuries, fatalities, kinds and causes of accidents, and operational data, such as number of mine workers and shifts worked.
Date: 1932
Creator: Adams, William W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1928 (open access)

Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1928

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines covering accidents that happened in metal mines located in the United States including statistics for injuries, fatalities, kinds and causes of accidents, and operational data, such as number of mine workers and shifts worked.
Date: 1930
Creator: Adams, William W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1929 (open access)

Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1929

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines covering accidents that happened in metal mines located in the United States including statistics for injuries, fatalities, kinds and causes of accidents, and operational data, such as number of mine workers and shifts worked.
Date: 1931
Creator: Adams, William W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potash Bibliography to 1928 (Annotated): Review and Compilation of Technical Literature on Potash Salts (including the Alunites) and Their Foreign Occurrences (open access)

Potash Bibliography to 1928 (Annotated): Review and Compilation of Technical Literature on Potash Salts (including the Alunites) and Their Foreign Occurrences

From Scope and Arrangement of Review: "This review is confined to the technical literature of the origin, history, and foreign occurrences of saline potassium minerals, their mining, description, treatment, and physical-chemical relations. The literature on alunite, jarosite, and related minerals has also been included. The literature on potash minerals associated with the nitrate deposits and on the silicate minerals has been omitted as well as that on analytical methods, statistics, political economy, and the very large field of patent literature. The material in this review is arranged chronologically and alphabetically according to the authors within each year."
Date: 1930
Creator: Berliner, J. F. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Properties of Typical Crude Oils From Fields of the Eastern Hemisphere (open access)

Properties of Typical Crude Oils From Fields of the Eastern Hemisphere

From Introduction: "The analyses in this bulletin offer a means for judging the relative values of the foreign crude oils compared with familiar crude oils of the United States that have been analyzed by the Bureau of Mines method."
Date: 1937
Creator: Kraemer, A. J. & Lane, E. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on the Disposal of Oil-Field Brines in the Ritz-Canton Oil Field, McPherson County, Kansas (open access)

Preliminary Report on the Disposal of Oil-Field Brines in the Ritz-Canton Oil Field, McPherson County, Kansas

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the issues of disposal of crude oil and natural gas brine. Disposal methods are studied and presented. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: December 1935
Creator: Wilhelm, C. J. & Schmidt, Ludwig
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disposal of Oil-Field Brines in the Arkansas River Drainage Area in Western Kansas (open access)

Disposal of Oil-Field Brines in the Arkansas River Drainage Area in Western Kansas

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the disposal methods of oil-field brine. The study focuses on the Arkansas River area of western Kansas. This report includes tables, graphs, illustrations, and maps.
Date: October 1936
Creator: Wilhelm, C. J.; Thorne, H. M. & Pryor, M. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Paraffin and Congealing-Oil Problems (open access)

Paraffin and Congealing-Oil Problems

From Scope of Report: "This report is in two parts-the major or first part is a discussion of the results obtained from field studies of the factors responsible for the deposition of paraffin and the congealing of oil and of practical methods of combating these problems. The second part of the report deals with the analyses of crude waxes or paraffin obtained from different representatives crude oils."
Date: 1932
Creator: Reistle, C. E., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Possibilities of the Texas-New Mexico Potash Deposits (open access)

Commercial Possibilities of the Texas-New Mexico Potash Deposits

From Introduction Results of Test: "Among the domestic potash resources which were brought to the attention of the country during and after the war but were not utilized as a source of potash, although they indicated that they might furnish the cheap potash desired, were the potash deposits occurring with the think rock-salt formations of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico."
Date: 1930
Creator: Wroth, James S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Greensand Bibliography to 1930 (Annotated): with a Chapter on Zeolite Water Softeners (open access)

Greensand Bibliography to 1930 (Annotated): with a Chapter on Zeolite Water Softeners

From Introduction: "The references given herein to the literature of greensand or glauconite are believed to be complete up to about the end of 1929. The aim in this bibliography has been to include with each important reference a short synopsis, generally checked against the original article. These synopses are believed to be sufficiently complete to present a general view of the original article, and in many items specific parts of the article are included."
Date: 1930
Creator: Shreve, R. Norris
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mining Petroleum by Underground Methods: A study of Methods used in France and Germany and Possible Application to Depleted Oil Fields under American Conditions (open access)

Mining Petroleum by Underground Methods: A study of Methods used in France and Germany and Possible Application to Depleted Oil Fields under American Conditions

From Introduction: "That the percentages of extraction of petroleum from the ground may and undoubtedly will be greatly increased in the future by underground mining methods where natural conditions will permit seems logical. The limitations imposed by depth, temperature, and flow of water under high pressure through the sands will be discussed later."
Date: 1932
Creator: Rice, George S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petroleum Engineering Report, Big Spring Field and Other Fields in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico (open access)

Petroleum Engineering Report, Big Spring Field and Other Fields in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over petroleum engineering studies conducted in Texas and New Mexico. The results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: November 1936
Creator: Carpenter, Charles B. & Hill, Harry Blackburn
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
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
Methods and Apparatus Used in Determining the Gas, Coke, and By-Product Making Properties of American Coals: with Results on a Taggart-Bed Coal from Roda, Wise County, Virginia (open access)

Methods and Apparatus Used in Determining the Gas, Coke, and By-Product Making Properties of American Coals: with Results on a Taggart-Bed Coal from Roda, Wise County, Virginia

From Introduction: "The results of this preliminary investigation, which were reported to the association at the 1928 convention, indicated, first, that fundamental information on the mechanism of carbonization throughout the entire range from low to high temperature coking is desired and, second, that a uniform basis upon which to compare the carbonizing properties of different coals should be developed."
Date: 1931
Creator: Fieldner, A. C.; Davis, J. D.; Thiessen, R.; Kester, E. B. & Selvig, W. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microscopic Structure and Concentratability of the Important Iron Ores of the United States (open access)

Microscopic Structure and Concentratability of the Important Iron Ores of the United States

Outline of Problem: "This paper covers a survey of 19 ores collected from seven of the more important iron-ore districts of the United States and is a contribution by the ore-dressing section of the United States Bureau of Mines to general research program on iron and steel being conducted by the Bureau."
Date: 1936
Creator: Cooke, S. R. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manganese: Its Occurrence, Milling, and Metallurgy; Part 1 (open access)

Manganese: Its Occurrence, Milling, and Metallurgy; Part 1

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the "occurrence, milling, and metallurgy of manganese in the United States" (p. 1). Different properties and compounds of manganese are also discussed. This report includes a map, tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: May 1934
Creator: Dean, Reginald S.; DeVaney, Fred D. & Coghill, Will H.
System: The UNT Digital Library