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  • NIOSH
    Statistical Summary (6bfb89b7-cae2-4aaa-a701-74d3608baa37)

    By d&apos, Kathleen J. Amico

    This summary appears in Minerals Year-book volumes I and III, which cover mineral production in the United States, its island possessions, the Canal Zone, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as well

    Jan 1, 1966

  • NIOSH
    OFR-111-79 Analysis Of Mobile Mining Equipment Pivot Pin Wear

    By Glenn Adkins

    This report characterizes pivoting joints in the structures of mining machinery and how the wear on the various components, i.e., pins, lugs, yokes and bushings, may affect the safety of mine personne

    Jan 1, 1979

  • NIOSH
    RI 5404 A Study Of The Feasibility Of Hydraulic Transport Of A Texas Lignite ? Summary

    By G. C. Lammers

    The object of this study was to determine the economic feasibility of hydraulically transporting Sandow (Tex.) lignite 100 miles and dewatering and thermally drying the transported lignite to a surfac

    Jan 1, 1958

  • NIOSH
    RI 8560 The Removal of Iron From Aluminum Chloride Leach Liquor by Solvent Extraction

    By Roy T. Sorensen

    As part of its mission to maintain an adequate supply of minerals to meet national needs and maximize mineral production from domestic sources, the Bureau of Mines is investigating the recovery of alu

    Jan 1, 1981

  • NIOSH
    RI 3429 Cooperative Fuel Research Motor-Gasoline Survey, Summer 1938 - Introduction

    [This is the sixth in a series of reports on properties of commercial motor fuels, made in accordance with a cooperative Agreement between the Cooperative Fuel Research (C.F.R.) Committee and the Bure

    Jan 1, 1938

  • NIOSH
    RI 7846 Effect of Specimen Volume on Apparent Tensile Strength of Three Igneous Rocks

    By Laxman S. Sundae

    A Bureau of Mines investigation was conducted to determine the effect of specimen volume on the apparent tensile strength of disks of St. Cloud Gray Granodiorite, Lithonia granite, and Rockville grani

    Jan 1, 1974

  • NIOSH
    MLA 73-86 - Mineral Resources Of The Upper Deep Creek Study Area, Owyhee County, Idaho ? Summary

    By Donald O. Capstick

    A mineral survey of a 5,700-acre portion of the 11,510-acre Upper Deep Creek Wilderness Study Area (ID-111-44B) in southwestern Idaho was conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1985. No mining claim

    Jan 1, 1986

  • NIOSH
    IC 8832 Automatic Fire Protection Systems For Surface Mining Equipment

    By William H. Pomroy

    Fire on surface mining equipment is a serious hazard to life and property. The Bureau of Mines, through a program of contract and in-house research, has developed and in-mine demonstrated reasonably p

    Jan 1, 1980

  • NIOSH
    IC 8166 X-Ray Mass Absorption Coefficients - A Literature Survey

    By Howard M. Stainer

    Published X-ray mass absorption coefficients were compiled and tabulated. These coefficients are required for various X-ray analytical techniques. Values obtained from 28 authors are listed for 87 ele

    Jan 1, 1963

  • NIOSH
    OFR-29-72 Exploration Of Illumination Concepts For Underground Coal Mines

    By Rupert O. Yantz

    This report, authorized under contract Number H0111403 Amendment Number One, entitled, "Exploration of Illumination Concepts for Underground Coal Mines", contains the results of an investigation of me

    Jan 1, 1972

  • NIOSH
    OFR-53-75 Handbook For Surveys Of Inhalation Contaminants In Above Ground Coal Mining And Processing Work Areas (Condensed Version) ? I. Introduction

    The objective of this condensed handbook is to provide the inspector with guidance for recognizing hazards from inhalation contaminants in above ground work areas of underground and surface coal minin

    Jan 1, 1975

  • NIOSH
    RI 8771 A Water Elutriator System for Recovering Nonmagnetic Metals From Automobile Shredder Rejects

    By D. K. Steele

    An 18-in-diam column water elutriator was designed, tested, and operated by the Bureau of Mines for recovering nonferrous mixed metals from automobile shredder rejects. The waver elutriator separated

    Jan 1, 1983

  • NIOSH
    MLA 25-85 - Mineral Resources Of The Mt. Stirling Wilderness Study Area (BLM No. 050-0401), Nye And Clark Counties, Nevada

    By Martin D. Conyac

    A 1984 Bureau of Mines investigation identified ho mineral resources in the Wilderness Study Area (WSA). However, four prospects in the WSA contain anomalous amounts of copper and silver minerals; one

    Jan 1, 1985

  • NIOSH
    OFR-24-82 Fugitive Dust Study Of An Open Pit Coal Mine

    By Virgil Marple

    In the summer of 1979 the University of Minnesota Mobile Laboratory (UMML), designed for the analysis of airborne particles and gases was used to study fugitive dust from an open pit coal mine. The an

    Jan 1, 1980

  • NIOSH
    Mine Fire Detection Under Zero Airflow Conditions

    By John C. Edwards, Gene F. Friel, John J. Opferman, Robert A. Franks

    A series of diesel fuel fire experiments were conducted in the Pittsburgh Research Center's Safety Research Coal Mine (SRCM) to determine products-of-combustion (POC) spread rates along a single

  • NIOSH
    OFR-68-82 New Procedure For Recovering Nickel And Cobalt From Western Laterites - Economic Feasibility

    A pilot program was undertaken to evaluate a process developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines to recover nickel, cobalt, copper and chromite from domestic nickel laterite resources. An existing five ton

    Jan 1, 1982

  • NIOSH
    IC 8166 X-Ray Mass Absorption Coefficients - A Literature Survey (12aff5f5-c7f5-442e-aa90-d2fc92f6ba01)

    By Howard M. Stainer

    Published X-ray mass absorption coefficients were compiled and tabulated. These coefficients are required for various X-ray analytical techniques. Values obtained from 28 authors are listed for 87 ele

    Jan 1, 1963

  • NIOSH
    RI 5839 Bacteria In Mining And Metallurgy: Leaching Selected Ores And Minerals; Experiments With Thiobacillus Thiooxidans ? Summary

    By Joseph A. Sutton

    This study was undertaken by the Bureau of Mines to determine whether the sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thiobacillus thiooxidans could use sulfur compounds to produce sulfuric acid in sufficient quantiti

    Jan 1, 1961

  • NIOSH
    IC 8804 Quarrying Near Urban Areas: An Aid To Premine Planning

    By J. M. Pugliese

    The Bureau of Mines, in support of its overall goal of helping to meet future U.S. demand for minerals, undertook this study to aid the quarry entrepreneur and/or operator in developing quarries near

    Jan 1, 1979

  • NIOSH
    OFR-162(2)-83 Mining In Low Coal - Volume II: Anthropometry

    By M. M. Ayoub

    This volume is the second of three volumes comprising the final report of the research project "Biomechanics of Low Coal." It covers only the anthropometric study of low coal miners. Volume I summariz

    Jan 1, 1982