Laramie Sponge-Iron Pilot Plant (open access)

Laramie Sponge-Iron Pilot Plant

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on the pilot plant in Laramie County, Wyoming. As stated in the introduction, "the purpose of this report is to record information derived from recent experimental work that had as its objective the development and demonstration of one method of producing sponge iron" (p. 2). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: September 1948
Creator: Johnston, T. L. & Mahan, W. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Sublette Ridge Vanadium Deposit, Lincoln County, Wyoming (open access)

Investigation of Sublette Ridge Vanadium Deposit, Lincoln County, Wyoming

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on vanadium deposits in Lincoln County. As noted in the introduction, "the following report covers the history of the district, outlines the physical features and communications, mentions the property, and notes the ownership. The deposits and ore are described, and work performed by the Bureau of Mines is explained in detail" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and maps.
Date: June 1949
Creator: Allsman, Paul T.; Majors, Forest H.; Mahoney, Stanford R. & Young, W. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mining Program: Bureau of Mines Oil-Shale Project, Rifle, Colorado (open access)

Mining Program: Bureau of Mines Oil-Shale Project, Rifle, Colorado

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines on the development of efficient mining methods for producing oil shale. Characteristics of the oil shale deposits of the Green River are presented. The results of core drilling and sampling in this area are also listed. This report includes tables, illustrations, maps, and photographs.
Date: April 1948
Creator: Gardner, E. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigations of Salt River Vanadium Deposits, Lincoln County, Wyoming (open access)

Investigations of Salt River Vanadium Deposits, Lincoln County, Wyoming

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on the vanadium deposits of Lincoln County, Wyoming. As stated in the introduction, "the work performed by the Bureau of Mines is explained in detail and supplemented with plans, sections, and a complete set of sample analyses. Proposed mining methods are discussed, and metallurgical tests are outlined" (p. 2). This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: August 1949
Creator: Allsman, Paul T.; Majors, Forest H.; Mahoney, Stanford R. & Young, W. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Casper Mountain Chromite Deposits, Natrona County, Wyoming (open access)

Investigation of Casper Mountain Chromite Deposits, Natrona County, Wyoming

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over a large chromite deposit on Casper Mountain. Description of the deposit is listed. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: August 1949
Creator: Horton, Frederick W. & Allsman, Paul T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trends in the Use of Energy in the Western States, With Particular Reference to Coal (open access)

Trends in the Use of Energy in the Western States, With Particular Reference to Coal

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on energy consumption in the western United States. A focus on coal as the primary energy source is presented. This report includes tables, graphs, maps, and illustrations.
Date: January 1943
Creator: Parry, V. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petroleum and Natural-Gas Fields in Wyoming (open access)

Petroleum and Natural-Gas Fields in Wyoming

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines discussing 75 petroleum and natural gas fields studied throughout Wyoming. History, geographic location, geology, drilling methods, and detailed analyses are presented. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: 1941
Creator: Espach, Ralph H. & Nichols, H. Dale
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Randolph Quadrangle, Utah-Wyoming (open access)

Geology and Mineral Resources of the Randolph Quadrangle, Utah-Wyoming

From abstract: This report briefly describes the geology and mineral resources of the Randolph quadrangle, which covers an area of 892 square miles in northeastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming.
Date: 1941
Creator: Richardson, G. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trace Elements Reconnaissance in South Dakota and Wyoming Preliminary Report (open access)

Trace Elements Reconnaissance in South Dakota and Wyoming Preliminary Report

The following report provides information that follows investigations of radioactivity in certain rocks found in Wyoming and South Dakota during the summer of 1945. Uranium is the principal element in this report with thorium as secondary.
Date: March 1946
Creator: Slaughter, A. L. & Nelson, John W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward Soil Security on the Northern Great Plains (open access)

Toward Soil Security on the Northern Great Plains

"This bulletin deals with soil and water conservation problems which relate to agriculture of the northern Great Plains [of the United States]." -- p. i. "The major portion of this bulletin, beginning on page 18, is devoted to a discussion of the controls and cures for land misuse. These suggested practices, in the main, represent the methods of control that are now being used in the several demonstration areas of the Soil Conservation Service. The use of these practices in a few specific demonstration areas is included in the section beginning on page 47. The last section (p. 76) points out a democratic procedure whereby landowners and operators may effect a more appropriate use of the land through soil conservation districts." -- p. 2
Date: 1941
Creator: Rule, Glenn K. (Glenn Kenton), 1893-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strawberry Culture: Western United States (open access)

Strawberry Culture: Western United States

Revised edition. "This bulletin applies both to the western portions of the United States in which ordinary farm crops are grown largely under irrigation and to western Oregon and Washington where irrigation is not essential for strawberry production but may be profitable. It describes methods practiced in the more important commercial strawberry-growing districts of the West; it aims to aid those persons familiar only with local and perhaps unsatisfactory methods, as well as inexperienced prospective growers. The fundamental principles of the irrigation of strawberries are substantially the same as those of irrigating other crops. Details must necessarily be governed largely by the character of the crop grown. Because strawberries in the humid areas frequently suffer from drought, which causes heavy losses in the developing fruit, the information may prove helpful to many growers in those areas who could install irrigation systems at small expense. This bulletin gives information on soils and their preparation, different training systems, propagation, planting, culture, the leading varieties, harvesting, shipping, and utilization." -- p. ii
Date: 1941
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889- & Waldo, George F. (George Fordyce), b. 1898
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strawberry Culture: Western United States (open access)

Strawberry Culture: Western United States

Revised edition. "Strawberries can be grown in those parts of the western Untied States in which ordinary farm crops are irrigated as well as in western Oregon and Washington, where irrigation is not essential but may be profitable. The principles of irrigating strawberries are essentially the same as those for other crops. Because strawberries are sensitive to the alkali salts that irrigation brings to the surface, such salts must be washed out or skimmed off. The strawberry grower, after choosing a suitable site and preparing the soil carefully, should select varieties adapted to his district and needs. He should use plants that are disease-free. In California, southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas the plants should have undergone a rest period. Usually the growers plant during the period of greatest rainfall. By using the recommended systems of training and care before, during, and after setting of the plants and the suggested methods of decreasing diseases and insect pests, he should obtain better yields. A grower can furnish consumers a better product by using good methods of harvesting and shipment. He can prolong the fresh-fruit season only a little by the use of cold storage, but he can extend his market by …
Date: 1948
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889- & Waldo, George F. (George Fordyce), b. 1898
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gas Hills Uranium District and Some Probable Controls for Ore Deposition (open access)

The Gas Hills Uranium District and Some Probable Controls for Ore Deposition

A generalized geologic map shows the locations of the uranium mines and some of the many occurrences and prospects in the Gas Hills district. Included also are recently-mapped structural features and results of analyses of uranium in water.
Date: June 1947
Creator: Zeller, H. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Table IV - Estimated Reserves of Vanadium-Bearing Rock In Areas of Extraction

Table showing the estimated reserves of vanadium-bearing rock in the Paris-Bloomington, Montpelier, Sublette Ridge, Swift Creek, and Strawberry Creek - Greys River Divide extraction areas in west-central Wyoming and southeastern Idaho. Indicated tonnage and inferred tonnage values are given for each area in millions of tons, along with the percentage of vanadium ore rock, maximum and minimum thickness, and average thickness of the rock in the extraction area.
Date: July 23, 1942
Creator: Rubey, William Walden & McKelvey, V. E.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reserves, Bed Characteristics, and Coking Properties of the Willow Creek Coal Bed, Kemmerer District, Lincoln County, Wyoming (open access)

Reserves, Bed Characteristics, and Coking Properties of the Willow Creek Coal Bed, Kemmerer District, Lincoln County, Wyoming

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines discussing the coal reserves and coking properties of the Willow Creek bed in Lincoln County, Wyoming. Analyses of the coal bed are presented in detail. This report includes tables, illustrations, photographs, and a map.
Date: 1945
Creator: Toenges, Albert L.; Davis, J. D.; Turnbull, Louis A. & Schopf, J. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thickness of Bituminous Coal and Lignite Seams Mined in the United States in 1945 (open access)

Thickness of Bituminous Coal and Lignite Seams Mined in the United States in 1945

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing bituminous coal and lignite seams found in the United States. The thickness of seams from several U.S. states is compared, as well as the mining methods employed. This report includes maps, tables, and illustrations.
Date: December 1947
Creator: Young, W. H. & Anderson, R. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Loss of Life Among Wearers of Oxygen Breathing Apparatus (open access)

Loss of Life Among Wearers of Oxygen Breathing Apparatus

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing fatalities of mine workers while wearing self-contained oxygen breathing apparatuses. Descriptions of the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 26 workers are presented. This report includes a table.
Date: April 1944
Creator: Grove, G. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Plates I-X]

Illustrations accompanying a report investigating the locations of vanadium-bearing phosphatic shale in West-Central Wyoming and Southeastern Idaho. The set includes seven maps (Plates I and V-X) showing the location of rock formations in the area and three charts (Plates II-IV) showing the correlation between the occurrence of vanadium deposits and the thin persistent beds of phosphate rock, oolite, siltstone, dolomite, and limestone with which they are interbedded.
Date: July 23, 1942
Creator: Rubey, William Walden & McKelvey, V. E.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vanadium-Bearing Phosphatic Shale in West-Central Wyoming and Southeastern Idaho (open access)

Vanadium-Bearing Phosphatic Shale in West-Central Wyoming and Southeastern Idaho

Discussing Vanadium-bearing phosphatic shale produced in West-central Wyoming and Southeastern Idaho
Date: July 23, 1942
Creator: Rubey, William Walden & McKelvey, V. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library