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RI 9444 - Longwall Retreat of Gate Road Pillars
By E. R. Bauer
This report describes a U.S. Bureau of Mines investigation into the removal of gate road chain pillars in conjunction with longwall retreat mining. The research objective was to determine, through eva
Jan 1, 1993
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RI 3041 Review Of Fatalities In The California Petroleum Industry During The Calendar Year 1929
By R. L. Marek
There were 63 fatalities in the California petroleum industry in 1929, the largest number in any year since 1923 and an increase of 34.0 per cent over 1928, when 47 men lost their lives in the drillin
Jan 1, 1930
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RI 3041 Review Of Fatalities In The California Petroleum Industry During The Calendar Year 1929 - Bureau Of Mines RI - 3041
By R. L. Merek
There were 63 fatalities in the California petroleum industry in 1929, the largest number in any year since 1923 and an increase of 34.0 per cent over 1928, when 47 men lost their lives in the drillin
Jan 1, 1930
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RI 5638 Producing Nickel-Bearing Iron From Cuban Ores In A Batch Rotary Kiln - Summary
By Warren M. Mahan
A rotary kiln process was developed by the Federal Bureau of Mines to produce consistently an iron product containing 3 to 7 percent nickel. Cuban laterite and serpentine ores were smelted in a gas-fi
Jan 1, 1960
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OFR-29-84 Electrical Installations In Oil Shale Mines
By Bobby B. Gillenwater
This report presents recommended guidelines and regulatory changes applicable to electrical installations in underground oil shale mines. These recommendations are based on information gathered from o
Jan 1, 1983
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Bulletin 154 Mining and Milling of Lead and Zinc Ores
By Clarence A. Wright
The Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma lead and zinc district, better known as the Joplin district, includes the mines in southwest Missouri and in those parts of Kansas and Oklahoma that are directly adjacent.
Jan 1, 1918
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RI 6054 Performance Of Tables In Cleaning Alaska Coals ? Introduction And Summary
By M. R. Geer
Information on the performance of coal-cleaning equipment is necessary to provide a basis for evaluating the performance of existing plants and projecting that of new plants. Performance data can cont
Jan 1, 1962
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RI 3575 Experiments On Strength Of Small Pillars Of Coal In The Pittsburgh Bed
By H. P. Greenwald, Irving Hartman, H. C. Howarth
"INTRODUCTION A report of tests of seven small pillars formed from the Pittsburgh coal bed in the Experimental coal mine was given in Technical Paper 605 5/ Five additional pillars were tested between
Jun 1, 1941
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Seated Human Response To Simple And Complex Impacts - Introduction
By J. Ankrum, T. Xia1, D. Wilder, K. Spratt
The human lumbar spine is inherently an unstable structure and requires sophisticated neuromuscular control to maintain its stability and for performing physical tasks. As a consequence, it is import
Jan 6, 2006
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Mineral Industries Of Latin America And Canada - Introduction
By Orlando Martino
This regional report covers the mineral industries of Canada and 40 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Also included is a brief description of the mineral potential of
Jan 1, 1994
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RI 3480 Progress Reports - Metallurgical Division - 34. Annual Report Of The Metallurgical Division, Fiscal Year 1939 ? Introduction
By R. S. Dean
[During the past fiscal year the Metallurgical Division has made important contributions along the lines dictated by the Bureau policy of conservation of domestic mineral resources through Its inve
Jan 1, 1940
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RI 3183 Smelting in the Lead Blast Furnace
By G. L. Oldright, Virgil Miller
"This paper is the tenth 4 of a series on smelting in the lead blast furnace, and the fifth 5 on modifications brought about by the introduction of richer charges.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSAll of the data on han
Aug 1, 1932
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Methane Control In Metal/Nonmetal Mines
By H. John Head, Fred N. Kissell
In This Chapter [Gas reports from around the world Regulations for gassy mines in the United States Differences between metal/nonmetal mines and coal mines Monitoring for methane and takin
Jan 6, 2006
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Fatal Injuries In The Mining Industry: Census Of Fatal Occupational Injuries
An examination of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) data for the period 1992-1995 shows that 659 fatalities occurred in the mining industry as defined by the SIC. Oil and gas accounted
Jan 5, 2000
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RI 3044 Coal Dust Explosion...by Direct Electrical Ignition
By G. S. Rice, H. O. Howarth, Greenwald. H. P.
"Electricity as a means of transmitting power was introduced in coal mines of the United States about 1891 for both haulage and coal cutting, only a few years after electrical haulage was first instal
Oct 1, 1930
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IC 8659 Methane Emission From U.S. Coal Mines In 1973, A Survey - A Supplement To IC 8558 (cf3baefd-ee84-4969-9593-28ca80239518)
By M. C. Irani
This Bureau of Mines survey of methane emissions indicates that total daily emissions have declined from 227 MM ft3 in 1971 to 214.7 MM ft3 in 1973. The highest average daily emissions in million cubi
Jan 1, 1974
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OFR-17(1)-74 Develop, Assemble And Install A Permissible Surveillance And Communication System In The Bureau Of Mines Mining And Safety Research Center Coal Mine At Bruceton, Pennsylvania ? Volume I ? Systems Development - I. Introduction
The purpose of this report is to describe the work accomplished by Mine Safety Appliances Company under Contract No. H0110845. This contract required the design, installation and testing of a permissi
Jan 1, 1973
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Analyses Of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada And Oregon Coals - The Coal Fields Of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, And Oregon
By David A. Andrews
Coal occurs at many scattered localities in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon, but in most of the known occurrences thick coal beds are of small extent and the coal generally contains a h
Jan 1, 1947
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FLAC Simulation Of Split-Pipe Tests On An Instrumented Cable Bolt (a0c51804-b6b1-4b6f-b8ba-d2b4c1ab8f67)
By Marc Ruest, Lewis Martin
A new instrumented cable bolt has been developed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the Spokane Research Laboratory in Spokane, WA. Although various instruments are avail
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Post-Explosion Observations Of Experimental Mine And Laboratory Coal Dust Explosions (53df8b67-101c-4743-ad15-b4e7335d247f)
By Terry G. Montgomery, Eric S. Weiss, John E. Going, Kenneth L. Cashdollar
The Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (PRL) of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) conducted joint research on dust expl