Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over tests conducted on underground mine slimes from a collection sump. Testing methods and results are discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.

"This Bulletin traces the development of the electroslag melting process from its modest beginnings to the present. Important basic mechanisms such as electrochemistry, thermochemistry, and heat transport are described. Since the choice of flux is a unique parameter in the electroslag process, two chapters are developed to this subject. Electroslag melting experience for reactive metals, base metals, ferrous alloys, superalloys, and the refractory metals, both inside and outside the Bureau of Mines, is outlined" (p. xi).

From Introduction: "The compilation of thermodynamic properties of nickel and its inorganic compounds was undertaken as part of a continuing effort by the Federal Bureau of Mines to provide information for the extractive metallurgist to use as guidelines for research on improving established process or developing new ones. This report also provides useful information for other areas of thermochemical research."