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  • NIOSH
    OFR-179(1)-84 Guidelines For Open Pit Ore Pass Design - Volume 1 - Final Report

    By D. F. Hambley

    This report documents the work carried out by Engineers International, Inc. and its subcontructor, W. G. Pariseau, in order to develop a design manual for ore passes for open pit mines. The work inclu

    Jan 1, 1983

  • NIOSH
    RI 4667 Report Of Research And Technologic Work On Explosives, Explosions, And Flames Fiscal Year 1949

    By Bernard Lewis

    This report summarizes the fundamental research and technical studies conducted by the Explosives Branch of the Bureau of Mines from July 1, 1943, to June 30, 1949. It is the thirteenth of a series of

    Jan 1, 1950

  • NIOSH
    IC 6727 Factors And Conditions That Aid In Alinement Of Pillar Extraction Lines In Coal Mining ? Importance Of Pillar Recovery

    By J. N. Geyer

    During the early stages of the mining industry of the United States an apparently inexhaustible supply of high-quality, easily accessible coal made the product cheap and the attendant mining methods w

    Jan 1, 1933

  • NIOSH
    OFR-11(2)-82 Recontouring Of Steep-Slope Abandoned Contour Mines - Volume II - Appendices

    By Daniel I. Carey

    Current and potential dragline reclamation usage was evaluated for the U.S. coalfields based on data gathered and analyzed during field surveys, literature reviews and contacts with manufacturers. It

    Jan 1, 1981

  • NIOSH
    IC 9452 - An Underground Coal Mine Fire Preparedness And Response Checklist: The Instrument

    By Linda L. Chasko, Charles P. Lazzara, Gary Braselton, Ronald S. Conti

    Preparedness is an important element of any underground mine's strategic plan in dealing with an unexpected event, such as a fire. A fully implemented fire preparedness and response plan is esse

    Jan 1, 2000

  • NIOSH
    OFR-130(1)-85 High Reliability Miner Hydraulic System - Volume I - Part I

    The evident need to improve the reliability of fluid power systems in underground coal mining equipment prompted the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and later the Department of Energy, to contract with the Flui

    Jan 1, 1983

  • NIOSH
    IC 8391 Dimension Stone

    By William R. Barton

    Dimension stones, with their almost infinite variety, have a broad range of properties and uses. Natural stone was beyond doubt the first mineral commodity used by man. Today dimension stone has widen

    Jan 1, 1968

  • NIOSH
    IC 7771 Bibliography Of Zirconium ? Introduction

    By Eleanor Abshire

    This bibliography is the result of a cooperative project undertaken by the Bureau of Ships and the Bureau of Mines to accumulate literature published to date on zirconium and hafnium and to establish

    Jan 1, 1957

  • NIOSH
    OFR-1-80 Underground Disposal Of Retorted Oil Shale For The Paraho Retorting Process

    By H. W. Earnest

    This report covers the results of a two-phase study to determine the feasibility of underground disposal of retorted oil shale. Two mining methods, chamber and pillar mining and sublevel stoping, were

    Jan 1, 1978

  • NIOSH
    Introduction (47068ab7-53dd-4378-bd75-16215c2111b8)

    Although not immune from the problems affecting the U.S. economy generally, the mineral industry in 1991 contributed nearly $300 billion in the value of processed materials of mineral origin. Supporti

    Jan 1, 1992

  • NIOSH
    IC 8977 Chromium Availability - Market Economy Countries - A Minerals Availability Program Appraisal

    By P. R. Thomas

    The Bureau of Mines determined the costs associated with the production of chromium, in the form of chromite and high-carbon ferrochomium, from the demonstated resources of 10 market economy nations.

    Jan 1, 1984

  • NIOSH
    Minerals In The U.S. Economy: Ten-Year Supply-Demand Profiles For Mineral And Fuel Commodities (1966-75) - U.S. Minerals Supply/Demand Flow Diagrams And Tables

    The accompanying supply/demand flow diagrams and 10-year tables for mineral and fuel commodities present essential data required by government, industry, and others to formulate policies and programs

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Indicators - Aluminum (7a99cb78-6776-4877-ab4a-dd794d43f903)

    The Aluminum Company of America announced a temporary reduction of the operating rate at its primary aluminum plant at Palestine, TX where it is developing a new process to produce aluminum metal by e

    Jan 1, 1979

  • NIOSH
    Fluorine Micas

    By Haskiel R. Shell

    While the original purpose of the Bureau of Mines work on fluorine micas was to synthesize large single crystals or film suitable to replace natural muscovite or phlogopite, the objective was broadene

    Jan 1, 1969

  • NIOSH
    OFR-166-81 Delineation Of Geologic Roof Hazards In Selected Coal Beds In Eastern Kentucky With Landsat Imagery Studies In Eastern Kentucky And The Dunkard Basin

    By David K. Hylbert

    This study investigated stratigraphic and structural causes of roof falls in room-and-pillar drift coal mines in nine mines in eastern Kentucky. A contract modification provided for remote sensing stu

    Jan 1, 1980

  • NIOSH
    OFR-118-76 Heap Leaching Studies On Uranium Ore

    By Robert C. Merritt

    Laboratory amenability studies as well as a pilot heap-leaching investigation of low-grade sandstone uranium ores from Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado are described. Sulfuric acid heap leaching with

    Jan 1, 1976

  • NIOSH
    Availability Of Federally Owned Minerals For Exploration And Development In Western States: Idaho, 1988

    By Paul C. Hyndman

    The U.S. Bureau of Mines inventoried Federal mineral lands in Idaho and classified them in detail, section by section, according to their availability for mineral exploration and development as affect

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    IC 8886 Mine Illumination - Proceedings: Second International Mine Lighting Conference Of The International Commission On Illumination (CIE)

    The U.S. Bureau of Mines, Department of Labor, and United States National Committee of the CIE hosted the TC4.10 Mine Lighting Committee Meeting and Second International CIE Mine Lighting conference a

    Jan 1, 1982

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Commodity Summaries 1982 - An Up-To-Date Summary Of 86 Nonfuel Mineral Commodities - Aluminum

    I. Domestic Production and Use: In 1981, 13 companies operated 32 primary aluminum reduction plants, with 3 firms accounting for 58% of production, Washington, Oregon, and Montana accounted for 32% of

    Jan 1, 1982

  • NIOSH
    IC 8225 Copper

    By A. D. McMahon

    This survey is one of a series of Bureau of Mines publications designed to serve the needs of Government and industry for comprehensive information on mineral commodities and activities. Copper, a ver

    Jan 1, 1965