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  • NIOSH
    Mineral Commodities Studies 1979 - An Up-To-Date Summary Of 90 Mineral Commodities ? Aluminum

    1. Domestic Production and Use: In 1978, 12 companies operated 31 primary aluminum reduction plants, with 3 firms accounting for 65% of production capacity. Washington, Oregon, and Montana accounted f

    Jan 1, 1979

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    Bulletin 201 Prospecting and Testing for Oil and Gas

    By R. E. Collom

    The commercial development of petroleum and natural gas fields has reached its present status within 60 years and is still considered by some operators to be "100 per cent wildcatting." 1 A tendency t

    Jan 1, 1922

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    A New Technique to Determine Wettability of Powders-Imbibtion Time Measurements

    By B. R. Mohal, S. Chander

    "A new technique to determine wettability of powders is presented in this paper. In this technique the times for immersion of individual particles from air into liquids, defined as imbibition times, a

    Mar 1, 1989

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    RI 9448 - Seismicity and Stress Changes Subsequent to Destress Blasting at the Galena Mine and Implications for Stress Control Strategies (9844d375-659f-4a7e-a5c0-a9fa2020e7d7)

    By F. M. Boler

    The U.S. Bureau of Mines conducts research at the Galena Mine, Wallace, ID, with the aim of mitigating the effects of rock bursting. Destress blasting is commonly used as a stress control technique at

    Jan 1, 2010

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    Federal Land Status In The Overthrust Belt Of Idaho, Montana, Utah, And Wyoming, 1979

    By Otto L. Schumacher

    The Overthrust Belt in portions of Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, an area that has contributed generously to the Nation's mineral supply, is one of the few remaining oil and gas frontiers on

    Jan 1, 1981

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Commodity Summaries 1993 - Significant Events In 1992 - U.S. Mineral And Material Industry

    The mineral Industry, following the economy as a whole, experienced little growth in 1992. However, with modernized plants, efficient workforces, and lower operating costs, the industry is well positi

    Jan 1, 1993

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Commodity Summaries 1984 - An Up-To-Date Summary Of 87 Nonfuel Mineral Commodities ? Aluminum

    1. Domestic Production and Use: In 1983, 12 companies operated 27 primary aluminum reduction plants, with 4 firms accounting for 65% of production. Washington, Oregon, and Montana accounted for 35% of

    Jan 1, 1984

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    IC 9274 Advanced Materials: Outlook And Information Requirements Proceedings of a Bureau of Mines Conference, November 7-8, 1989, Arlington, VA

    By Louis J. Sousa

    In November 1989, the U.S. Bureau of Mines sponsored a 2-day conference to stimulate thinking and discussion about changing materials technologies and implications for the Government's materials

    Jan 1, 1990

  • NIOSH
    Oil-Shale Mining, Rifle, Colo., 1944-56 ? Summary

    By J. H. East

    THE RIFLE, COLO., oil-shale project of the Bureau of Mines was a facet of the re-search and development activities conducted under the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act (Public Law 78-290) of April 5, 1944.

    Jan 1, 1964

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Commodity Summaries 1985 - An Up-To-Date Summary Of 87 Nonfuel Mineral Commodities ? Aluminum

    1. Domestic Production and Use: In 1984, 12 companies operated 27 primary aluminum reduction plants, with 3 firms accounting for 57% of production. Washington, Oregon, and Montana accounted for 35% of

    Jan 1, 1985

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    OFR-129-78 Detailed Geologic Mapping U. S. Bureau Of Mines Tract Piceance Creek Basin Rio Blanco County, Colorado

    By John B. Ivey

    This is a geologic study of the U.S. Bureau of Mines Oil Shale Tract in the Piceance Creek Basin of Rio Blanco County, Colorado for the preparation of a set of detailed surface geologic maps, measurem

    Jan 1, 1978

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    IC 8488 Ash Utilization - Proceedings: Second Ash Utilization Symposium. Sponsored By National Coal Association, Edison Electric Inst., American Public Power Assn, National Ash Assn, And Bureau Of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 10-11, 1970

    More than 400 academic, government, and industry representatives attended the second symposium on ash utilization and technology held in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 10-11, 1970. Sponsored by the National C

    Jan 1, 1970

  • NIOSH
    OFR-112-85 Generalization Of Medical And Health Compliance Research To Coal Mine Safety

    By H. P. Cole

    Methods for increasing compliance to medical and health regimens were reviewed along with similar research in industrial and mine safety. Principles abstracted from both areas suggest that compliance

    Jan 1, 1985

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    OFR-9(1)-72 Coal Mine Rescue And Survival System - Volume I - Survival Subsystem - Introduction - Contract Information

    This volume constitutes the Survival Subsystem portion of the final report for the Coal Mine Rescue and Survival System (CMR&SS) program, which was conducted by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation u

    Jan 1, 1971

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    RI 4892 Petroleum-Engineering Study Of K.M.A. Reservoir, Southwestern Part Of K.M.A. Oil Field, Wichita And Archer Counties, Tex.

    By Rollie P. Dobyns

    The K.M.A. reservoir was discovered to be oil bearing at a depth of 3,719 feet on March 11, 1931. Extensive development, however, was not begun immediately, because the discovery well had a low initia

    Jan 1, 1952

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    IC 8731 GDIST: A Computer Code For Analysis Of Statistical Distributions Of Physical Data

    By J. R. Alldredge

    This Bureau of Mines report presents a computer code that has been developed for describing and testing the statistical distribution of general continuous data sets. The statistical distributions used

    Jan 1, 1977

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    IC 7668 Vermiculite ? Introduction

    By O. S. North

    As recently as the late 1920's there Were few indications that a 15-million-dollar-a-year industry would ever grow out of the mineralogic curiosity vermiculite. Today, it is an important industri

    Jan 1, 1953

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    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
    Nonmetal Operator Mining Facts ? 2005 - Mining Operations

    In 2005, a total of 739 nonmetal mining operations reported employment to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). These mines (e.g., potash, gypsum, salt) comprised 5.0% of all operations.

    Jan 1, 2008

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    IC 8415 Bibliography Of Investment And Operating Costs For Chemical And Petroleum Plants, January-December 1968 ? Introduction

    By Sidney Katell

    This report, covering the period January 1968 through December 1968, is a continuation of a series that began with the publication of Information Circular 7516 in October 1949. It is the tenth in a se

    Jan 1, 1969