Radiometric Reconnaissance Examination in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey (open access)

Radiometric Reconnaissance Examination in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey

Abstract: In May 1950, 350 miles of road was traversed in the vicinity of a torbernite locality in New Jersey. The radioactivity of the area traversed was two to three times above normal, averaging 0.003 percent equivalent uranium. It is estimated that there is 1,000 tons of rock averaging 0.009 percent uranium at the torbernite locality. The presence of this area of above-normal radioactivity suggests that further study is needed in the Piedmont belt and the flanking sediments, which may contain economic deposits of uranium minerals.
Date: December 1951
Creator: Stewart, Robert H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimate of Known Recoverable Reserves of Coking Coal in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. (open access)

Estimate of Known Recoverable Reserves of Coking Coal in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the estimates of known reserves of coking coal deposits in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. The properties of coal and coal blends from the area are presented. The report includes tables and maps.
Date: July 1951
Creator: Dowd, James J.; Turnbull, Louis A.; Toenges, Albert L.; Abernethy, R. F. & Reynolds, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimate of Known Recoverable Reserves of Coking Coal in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (open access)

Estimate of Known Recoverable Reserves of Coking Coal in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the estimate of the known reserves of coking coal in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The report evaluates the properties of coal and coal blends from the area, and includes tables, and maps.
Date: August 1951
Creator: Dowd, James J.; Turnbull, Louis A.; Toenges, Albert L.; Abernethy, R. F. & Reynolds, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimate of Known Recoverable Reserves of Coking Coal in Fayette County, Pennsylvania (open access)

Estimate of Known Recoverable Reserves of Coking Coal in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the known reserves of coking coal in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Studies on the properties of coal and coal blends from the area are presented. This report contains tables, and maps.
Date: August 1951
Creator: Dowd, James J.; Turnbull, Louis A.; Toenges, Albert L.; Abernethy, R. F. & Reynolds, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lignite in Greece (open access)

Lignite in Greece

From Summary and Conclusions: "The objective of this investigation has been stated above in the Introduction. Studies were made of mining operations in the Athens Basin, Rafina and Oropos districts; the Kimi and Aliveri areas on the island of Euboea; and the Peloponnese in the vicinity of Kalamai. (See fig. 2). Mining practices at mines in these areas are summarized briefly in this report. Samples of lignite were shipped to Bureau of Mines experiment stations at Pittsburgh, Pa., and Golden, Colo., for washability and utilization studies."
Date: 1951
Creator: Toenges, Albert L.; Crentz, W. L.; Parks, B. C. & Abernethy, R. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acid-Mine-Drainage Problems: Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania (open access)

Acid-Mine-Drainage Problems: Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania

Report from the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the anthracite region of Pennsylvania and the efforts to prevent coal-mine drainage into nearby streams. According to the introduction, "The purpose of this report is not to develop a practicable or feasible method or process of treating acid mine water but rather to present available factual and deduced data that may be useful in showing pH range over which the treatment is to take place and the sludge products most likely to be handled" (p. 2).
Date: 1951
Creator: Ash, S. H. (Simon Harry), b. 1889; Felegy, E. W.; Kennedy, D. O. & Miller, P. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Figure 1. Place and Direction From Which Figures 2 to 7 Were Taken and Relative Positions of Flooded Surface, Buried Valley of the Susquehanna, and Underlying Coal Measures and Mine Workings]

Map that accompanies a report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines regarding a buried valley area (a deposit of clay, sand, and gravel) around the Susquehanna River in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania, near the city of Wilkes-Barre. This map indicates the relative positions of mines and other coal storages locations referenced in the report along with flooded regions and underlying coal measurings and workings.
Date: 1951
Creator: United States. Bureau of Mines.
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library