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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
Investigations of Zirconium with Especial Reference to the Metal and Oxide: Historical Review and Bibliography
From introduction: "As it necessary to begin with a historical review of the literature, such a review is given as Part I of this report, and a bibliography is included as Part IV. References to the numbered items in this bibliography are made throughout the text, the usual footnote reference being omitted. Analyses of the products and conclusions as their purity are given under the descriptions of methods of preparation. A table showing the properties amorphous metal, and another showing the properties of the coherent metal, will be found under appropriate headings in Part II."
Date:
1921
Creator:
Marden, J. W. & Rich, M. N.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technology and Uses of Silica and Sand
Report discussing the technology for mining silica and the various uses of silica in industry and the arts.
Date:
1927
Creator:
Weigel, W. M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Leaching Nonsulphide Copper Ores with Sulphur Dioxide
Report issued by the Bureau of Mines discussing the sulfurous acid leaching of the Southwest experiment station. Operations and analyses of the experiment station are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date:
May 1923
Creator:
Van Barneveld, Charles E. & Leaver, Edmund S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Surface Machinery and Methods for Oil-Well Pumping
From Introduction General Scope: "This bulletin deals with prime movers, power-transmitting machinery, and the surface equipment and methods used to pump oil wells."
Date:
1925
Creator:
George, H. C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1927
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:
1929
Creator:
Adams, William W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Some Principles Governing the Production of Oil Wells
From Introduction: "The report discusses some of the fundamental factors governing oil production, taking up first the conditions affecting the amount of oil in the oil sand, then those factors that control the rate of production of oil wells, and then discusses several related problems, most of which deal particularly with the effect of the production of one well on that of another."
Date:
1921
Creator:
Beal, Carl H. & Lewis, J. O.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid in the United States
Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the production of sulfuric acid. As stated in the introduction, "the present bulletin was prepared to cover the main facts in regard to the industry in this country, including a discussion of the supplies of sulfur-bearing raw materials, the situation of the acid plants, the principal points in regard to manufacturing processes, and the uses of the acid" (p. 2). This report includes tables, illustrations, photographs, and a map.
Date:
July 1920
Creator:
Wells, Arthur Edward & Fogg, Donald E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Underground Conditions in Oil Fields
From Introduction: "This paper aims to show the general method of procedure in studying underground conditions in producing oil fields and how such study may not only correct but even prevent great unnecessary losses. Throughout the paper reference is made to oil wells and oil fields, but to a certain degree many of the suggestions relating to oil wells are applicable in the care and protection of gas wells and in solving gas problems."
Date:
1921
Creator:
Ambrose, A. W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pennsylvania Mining Statutes Annotated
From Author's Explanation: "This bulletin is intended to include every legislative enactment of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania relating to the mining and mineral industries. The entire body of mining laws is set out for these obvious reasons: (1) To show the progress and advancement made, and the changes through which the enactments have passed; (2) an author may not assume the determination of what particular laws are in fact in effect, as this is within the jurisdiction of the courts alone; (3) it was at least necessary to set out all acts that had at any time been construed by the courts."
Date:
1920
Creator:
Thompson, J. W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library Biennial Report: 1926-1928
Biennial report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission with updates for the Texas State Library documenting information about financing, staffing, library services, and other related activities.
Date:
September 1928
Creator:
Texas Library and Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Petroleum Laws of All America
Report issued by the Bureau of Mines covering petroleum laws of the U.S. and surrounding oil producing countries. As stated in the preface, "this bulletin includes the petroleum laws of (1) United States; (2) the several oil-producing States; (3) Canada; (4) Mexico; (5) the Republics of Central and South America" (p. iv).
Date:
March 1921
Creator:
Thompson, Joseph Wesley
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances in 1919 and 1920
Report issued by the Bureau of Mines consisting of bibliographies for petroleum bulletins. The bibliographies for bulletins published between 1919 and 1920 are presented.
Date:
January 1923
Creator:
Burroughs, Elizabeth Harding
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library Biennial Report: 1924-1926
Report on Texas library and Historical Commission State Library for the Ninth Biennium.
Date:
September 1926
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances, 1917
From Introduction: "This bulletin is the third of the series of yearly petroleum bibliographies being published by the Bureau of Mines."
Date:
1920
Creator:
Burroughs, E. H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances in 1918
From Introduction: "This bulletin is the fourth in the series of petroleum bibliographies being published by the Bureau of Mines, the preceding, Bulletins 149, 165, and 180, being complications for the years 1915, 1916, and 1917, respectively. In this bulletin the same general plan has been followed in arranging the references, but a few changes and additions have been made in classification, the more important changes being in the classes "Geology and Origin" and "Refining and Refineries." During the year German periodicals were not available, and as in the bibliography for 1917, references to articles in foreign journals that were not available have been taken from other sources and credit given to those sources."
Date:
1921
Creator:
Burroughs, E. H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances, 1921
From Introduction: "This bulletin is the sixth in the series of petroleum bibliographies published by the Bureau of Mines, Bulletins 149, 165, 180, 189, and 216 being compilations for the years 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919-20 respectively. In this bulletin the same general plan has been followed in arranging the references, but one or two additions have been made in the classification."
Date:
1923
Creator:
Burroughs, E. H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances, 1922 and 1923
From Introduction: "This bulletin is the seventh in this series of petroleum bibliographies published by the Bureau of Mines, Bulletins 149, 165, 180, 189, 216, and 220 being complications for the years 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919-20, and 1921, respectively. In this bulletin the same general plan of classification of references has been followed, but several additions have been made."
Date:
1929
Creator:
Britton, H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Protection of Oil and Gas Field Equipment Against Corrosion
From Introduction: "This bulletin describes common causes and effects of oil and gas field corrosion and outlines methods of abating the damage."
Date:
1925
Creator:
Mills, R. Van A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining: May to August, 1919
Bulletin issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines: "This publication is devoted exclusively to a review and abstracts of decisions based on the laws governing the rights and duties of mine owners, operators, miners, and persons trafficking in all kinds of mining properties. It includes abstracts of current decisions of all the Federal and State courts of last resort on questions relating to the mining industries" (Bulletin 61, p. 9).
Date:
1920
Creator:
Thompson, J. W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Manual for Oil and Gas Operations [Part 2]
Part two of a bulletin from the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing oil and gas field waste prevention, and policies on field operation. According to the introduction (from part 1), "Part II comprises the revised 'Operating Regulations' which supersede all previous regulations and will govern future operations on public lands" (p. 1).
Date:
1923
Creator:
Swigart, T. E. & Beecher, C. E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Prospecting and Testing for Oil and Gas
From Introduction: "Part I of this paper discusses briefly some of the features of oil and gas accumulation and describes certain oil-field rocks and minerals. Part II deals with the kinds of tools that should be used and the information necessary for selecting proper tools. Part III discusses the accurate testing of strata for oil or gas and states principles based on conditions that have frequently existed in well drilling."
Date:
1922
Creator:
Collom, R. E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Evaporation Loss of Petroleum in the Mid-Continent Field
From Introduction: "The results of the investigation, as presented in this report, indicate that loses from evaporation are so large that they should receive serious consideration at once by the industry, which should make every endeavor to reduce them to a minimum."
Date:
1922
Creator:
Wiggins, J. H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Sunset-Midway Oil Field, California: Part 1. Geology and Oil Resources
This is a report on the Sunset-Midway oil field in Kern County, California, including the geology and production of oil.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Pack, Robert W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library