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  • NIOSH
    OFR-28-72 Systems Analysis Of An Inherently Explosion-Proof Coal Mining Operation

    The inherently explosion-proof mine (EPM) concept is based upon the non-flammability of certain combustible-oxidant-inert gas mixtures, and the effect of partial pressure of gases on physiological rea

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    OFR-101-80 Environmental Assessment Of In Situ Mining

    By Dennis R. Kasper

    This study evaluates selective environmental impacts of two distinct in situ mining techniques. In situ leaching of uranium, porphyry copper and native copper and in situ borehole (slurry) mining of u

    Jan 1, 1979

  • NIOSH
    IC 6412 Mining Practice At The Chino Mines, Nevada Consolidated Copper Co., Santa Rita, N. Mex. ? Introduction

    By H. A. Thorne

    This paper describing the mining practices at the Chino mines at Santa Rita, Grant County, N. Mex., is one of a series being prepared by the Bureau of Mines on mining practices, methods, and costs in

    Jan 1, 1931

  • NIOSH
    Metal- And Nonmetal-Mine Accidents In The United States During The Calendar Year 1942 (Excluding Coal Mines) - Introduction

    By W. W. Adams

    The first full year of the second World War for the United States presented a picture of the metal-and nonmetal-mining 4 industry which, without proper analysis and explanation, would convey a distort

    Jan 1, 1945

  • NIOSH
    OFR-13(1)-80 Survey Of Surface Hydraulic Mining Technology - Volume 1 - Final Report

    By William C. Cooley

    A literature search and survey were prepared on the technology of surface hydraulic mining, with particular reference to its possible use in the United States forstripping overburden from surface coal

    Jan 1, 1976

  • NIOSH
    RI 4429 Missouri Valley Manganese Deposits South Dakota Part III. Mining And Beneficiation Studies

    By Paul Zinner

    Efforts to win an enriched manganiferous product from the Missouri Valley deposits of South Dakota have included an application of most known ore-dressing devices and have been largely unsuccessful. A

    Jan 1, 1949

  • NIOSH
    IC 8286 Crude Oil: Qualitative And Quantitative Aspects - The Petroleum World

    By Harold M. Smith

    This report presents a complete qualitative picture of knowledge of the composition of petroleum as of April 1965. The material is presented in detail on two imaginative maps--one, the Hydrocarbon Hem

    Jan 1, 1966

  • NIOSH
    IC 8286 Crude Oil: Qualitative And Quantitative Aspects - The Petroleum World (2f4579db-d935-4dea-be4b-025a4c8d7068)

    By Harold M. Smith

    This report presents a complete qualitative picture of knowledge of the composition of petroleum as of April 1965. The material is presented in detail on two imaginative maps--one, the Hydrocarbon Hem

    Jan 1, 1966

  • NIOSH
    RI 4594 Petroleum-Engineering Study Of The New Hope Oil Field Franklin County, Tex.

    By Charles B. Carpenter

    The New Hope field was selected for study by; Bureau of lanes engineers because many problems met by, the operators during development and operation were unique to petroleum-engineering experience. So

    Jan 1, 1949

  • NIOSH
    RI 5161 Experiments On The Recovery Of Tin From Low-Grade Bolivian Tin Ores By Sulfide Volatilization ? Summary

    By M. J. Spendlove

    A progress report is presented on a research program in which an attempt was made to develop a practical sulfide-volatilization process for recovering tin from low-grade Bolivian ores. Shaft-furnace d

    Jan 1, 1955

  • 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
    IC 9244 Longwall Automation: A Ground Control Perspective

    By Jeffrey M. Listak

    This U.S. Bureau of Mines report describes the implications of in-mine ground control on the automated or remotely controlled operation of longwall mining equipment, Perhaps the greatest challenge to

    Jan 1, 1990

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 180 Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances 1917

    By E. H. BURROUCHS

    This bulletin is the third of the series of yearly petroleum bibliographies being published by the Bureau of Mines. The two preceding, Bulletin 149 and Bulletin 165, were for the years 1915 and 1916,

    Jan 1, 1920

  • NIOSH
    IC 9007 Subsidence Information For Underground Mines-Literature Assessment And Annotated Bibliography

    By A. J. Fejes

    The purpose of this Bureau of Mines report is to provide mining industry personnel and regulatory authorities with a subsidence-reference list and annotated bibliography that will aid them in locating

    Jan 1, 1985

  • NIOSH
    RI 3779 Horizontal Drilling for Oil in Pennsylvania - A Preliminary Report

    By C. W. Elder

    "INTRODUCTION This report describes a method of horizontal drilling in an oil-producing formation underlying a 400-acre, approximately square plot of land in the Franklin Heavy oil field in Sugar Cree

    Sep 1, 1944

  • NIOSH
    OFR-152-77 Engineering And Economic Evaluation Of New Mining Concepts For Hard Rock Bedded Deposits

    By M. Jaffe

    The data developed in this study establishes the technical and economic feasibility as well as the improved health and safety characteristics of a novel mining concept. The mining concept is a modifie

    Jan 1, 1977

  • NIOSH
    Barrier Pillars In The Southern Field - Anthracite Region Of Pennsylvania - Summary

    By S. H. Ash

    THE INVESTIGATION of barrier pillars in the Southern field is part of the comprehensive study of the mine water problem in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania by the Federal Bureau of Mines (1, 2, 5

    Jan 1, 1953

  • NIOSH
    IC 7403 Recent Engineering Developments in Switzerland on Gas Turbines and Steam Generators

    By Harold J. Rose

    The economic situation in Switzerland during recent years has resulted in theoretical studies , engineering development work , and many commercial installations of ingenious methods for using energy m

    Jun 1, 1947

  • NIOSH
    OFR-47-77 Reducing The Operator Sound Level Of A Mining Service Vehicle - A Demonstration Project

    By G. G. Huggins

    A demonstration project has been completed to reduce the operator sound level of an underground service vehicle, a personnel dispatch wagon, to go dB(A) or less. The program objective was to implement

    Jan 1, 1975

  • NIOSH
    OFR-77(2)-75 Extinguishing Coal Mine Fires By Remote Sealing - Volume II - Summary

    By D. Randolph Berry

    The objective of this program was to develop a system to extinguish coal mine fires by remote sealing of the underground passageways. The system developed had to be versatile enough to function under

    Jan 1, 1973