Coal-Mine Fatalities in the United States, 1928 (open access)

Coal-Mine Fatalities in the United States, 1928

Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatalities in coal mines located in the United States as well as data regarding the various operations (e.g., number of miners employed and average production). The information is organized into tables for comparison and the text draws some overall conclusions in the summary.
Date: 1930
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
Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1928 (open access)

Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1928

Report published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines which is a compilation of accidents in quarries located in the United States with data regarding the number and kinds of accidents as well as information about the mining operations (e.g., number of men employed, kinds of quarries, amount of work performed, etc.).
Date: 1930
Creator: Adams, William W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Safety Competition of 1929 (open access)

The National Safety Competition of 1929

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the fifth annual national safety competition. The states represented in the competition are listed. Accident-frequency rates are presented as well. This report includes tables.
Date: May 1930
Creator: Adams, William Waugh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods and Costs of Stripping and Mining at the United Verde Open-Pit Mine, Jerome, Arizona (open access)

Methods and Costs of Stripping and Mining at the United Verde Open-Pit Mine, Jerome, Arizona

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the mining practices and expenses of the United Verde open-pit mine west of Jerome, Arizona. As stated in the introduction, "the purpose of this paper is to present the methods used in developing and operating the mine, and to discuss the problems encountered" (p. 1). This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: February 1930
Creator: Alenius, E. M. J.
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
Engineering Study of the Seminole Area, Seminole and Pottawatomie Counties, Oklahoma (open access)

Engineering Study of the Seminole Area, Seminole and Pottawatomie Counties, Oklahoma

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over engineering studies conducted on Oklahoma oil fields. The results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: May 1930
Creator: Brandenthaler, R. R.; Morris, W. S. & Bopp, C. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rock-Strata Gases of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado and Their Effect on Mining (open access)

Rock-Strata Gases of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado and Their Effect on Mining

From Introduction: "The presence in the Cripple Creek district, Colo., of irrespirable gas or gases, generally known to consist mainly of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, has been recognized by members of the mining industry in that region almost since underground mining was begun there; the occurrence origin, and possible control of these gases have been discussed in several articles cited at various places in this report. Similar gases have also been studied in other metal-mining districts, as later discussed."
Date: 1930
Creator: Denny, E. H.; Marshall, K. L.; Fieldner, A. C.; Emery, A. H.; Yant, W. P. & Selvig, W. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerated Laboratory Test for Determination of Slacking Characteristics of Coal (open access)

Accelerated Laboratory Test for Determination of Slacking Characteristics of Coal

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on laboratory testing developed to measure the slacking of coals. Testing methods and results are presented. This report includes tables and graphs.
Date: November 1930
Creator: Fieldner, Arno Carl; Selvig, W. A. & Frederic, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Construction and Operation of the Bureau of Mines Experimental Oil-Shale Plant, 1925-1927 (open access)

Construction and Operation of the Bureau of Mines Experimental Oil-Shale Plant, 1925-1927

Report describing the construction of the Bureau of Mines experimental oil-shale plant at Rulison, CO, during 1925 and 1926, its operation, and the results obtained from refinery studies of the oil produced.
Date: 1930
Creator: Gavin, Martin J. & Desmond, John S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Permissible Methane Detectors (open access)

Permissible Methane Detectors

From Function of Methane Detectors: "The object of this paper is to present to the mining public the results of the permissibility tests of the detectors that have been approved, also to give the results of a series of tests conducted to determine their practicability."
Date: 1930
Creator: Hooker, A. B.; Fene, W. J. & Currie, R. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petroleum Refinery Statistics: 1928 (open access)

Petroleum Refinery Statistics: 1928

Report discussing statistics relating to the petroleum refinery industry in 1928.
Date: 1930
Creator: Hopkins, C. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Permissible Electric Mine Lamps (open access)

Permissible Electric Mine Lamps

From Introduction: "This paper gives a brief account of the introduction of electric lighting in mines, reviews some of the preliminary and approval work on electric mine lamps up to July, 1917, when a previous bulletin on electric lamps was issued, and describes the lamp-approval work from that date of July, 1930."
Date: 1930
Creator: Ilsley, L. C. & Hooker, A. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Innovations in Copper Leaching Employing Ferric Sulphate-Sulphuric Acid (open access)

Innovations in Copper Leaching Employing Ferric Sulphate-Sulphuric Acid

From Introduction: "The Bureau of Mines has attempted to develop a cheap and efficient solvent that would especially meet the requirements of smaller plants. (See Bibliography). A method of producing this solution from sulphurous products and waste liquors was developed by the bureau and tried successfully on a test-plant scale at the Southwest Experiment Station in cooperation with the department of mining and metallurgy, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Ariz."
Date: 1930
Creator: Keyes, Harmon E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Vacuum on Oil Wells (open access)

Effect of Vacuum on Oil Wells

From Introduction: "Because of the above reasons, because there is a dearth of published information relating to the effect of vacuum oil wells, and because misapplication of vacuum may result in a greatly decreased ultimate recovery of oil, whereas the correct application may have the opposite effect, the Bureau of Mines has authorized this investigation."
Date: 1930
Creator: Lindsly, Ben E. & Berwald, W. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Zinc Smelting from a Chemical and Thermodynamic Viewpoint (open access)

Zinc Smelting from a Chemical and Thermodynamic Viewpoint

Report describing a chemical and thermodynamic overview of zinc smelting. The methods described are not new, but the analysis is deeper and more focused than in previous reports.
Date: 1930
Creator: Maier, C. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ventilation of the Large Copper Mines of Arizona (open access)

Ventilation of the Large Copper Mines of Arizona

Introduction: "This bulletin discusses ventilation methods, practices, and costs at 11 large copper mines in Arizona, as obtained by brief personal studies and from supplementary information furnished by the mine managements. These mines were visited from December, 1928, to November, 1929, and the methods and practices in use when visited are described in some detail."
Date: 1930
Creator: McElroy, G. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gas-Lift Method of Flowing Oil Wells: (California Practice) (open access)

Gas-Lift Method of Flowing Oil Wells: (California Practice)

From Introduction: "In this report the author has presented data of actual gas-lift operations in the oil fields of California. Wherever theoretical hypotheses and conclusions are given an attempt has been made to support them by field data gathered during consultation with engineers and operators. The impossibility of drawing conclusions that will apply to all wells or even to one well throughout its life is appreciated by everyone who has studied the subject, and the reader is cautioned not to accept all the data presented as being applicable to every well."
Date: 1930
Creator: Miller, H. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refining of Light Petroleum Distillates (open access)

Refining of Light Petroleum Distillates

From Scope of Report: "The first part of this report deals with the principal methods of refining light petroleum products, the equipment used, and the effects of the different refining agents. The second part of the report deals with a study of the value of fractionation as an aid to the refining of pressure distillates."
Date: 1930
Creator: Rue, H. P. & Espach, Ralph H.
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
Agglomeration and Leaching of Slimes and Other Finely Divided Ores (open access)

Agglomeration and Leaching of Slimes and Other Finely Divided Ores

Report discussing the loads and extracting of slime and other divided ores. The report discusses experimental work done on the materials.
Date: 1930
Creator: Sullivan, John D. & Towne, Alfred P.
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