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IC 8195 Methods And Costs Of Shaft Sinking, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Project Gnome, Near Carlsbad, N. Mex.
By Merwin H. Howes
Gnome shaft, situated about 24 miles southeast of Carlsbad, N. Mex., was designed and sunk by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for conducting a peace-time experimental nuclear explosion in the thick
Jan 1, 1963
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IC 8598 An Economic Appraisal Of The Supply Of Copper From Primary Domestic Sources
By Harold J. Bennett
This study was performed by the Bureau of Mines to evaluate the potential supply of primary copper from domestic resources. A tonnage-price relationship was developed indicating the quantity of copper
Jan 1, 1973
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IC 8270 Water Utilization And Conservation By Petroleum Refineries In California
By Curt D. Edgerton
This study was made to determine trends in fresh water usage by California petroleum refineries, to forecast fresh water requirements to 1975, and to evaluate water conservation practices. Statist
Jan 1, 1965
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IC 8270 Water Utilization And Conservation By Petroleum Refineries In California (76fe2110-f498-4c8a-94ad-84e93291cac4)
By Curt D. Jr. Edgerton
This study was made to determine trends in fresh water usage by California petroleum refineries, to Forecast fresh water requirements to 1975, and to evaluate water conservation practices. Statisti
Jan 1, 1965
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Use of Rocsil® Foam to Remotely Construct Mine Seals
By Cliff McCartney, Michael A. Trevits
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is conducting a program of research to evaluate and improve remote mine seal construction technology for mine fire control and suppres
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OFR-29-78 Mine Wide Test Of The WVU Monitoring Concept - Phase I Final Report: System Design, Installation And Test Results
By M. D. Aldridge
The results of designing, constructing, installing and operating a ventilation monitoring system throughout an entire commercial coal mine is presented. Measured parameters were airflow, methane, carb
Jan 1, 1977
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IC 9379 Coal Reserves Of The Boltsfork Quadrangle, Kentucky A Coal Recoverability Study
By Timothy J. Rohrbacher
This report presents a U.S. Bureau of Mines study that incorporates coal mining factors, coal recovery factors, and economic factors into the definition of an economically recoverable coal resource. T
Jan 1, 1994
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IC 6991 Gold Mining And Milling In The Wickenburg Area, Maricopa And Yavapai Counties, Ariz. ? Introduction
By O. H. Metzger
This is one of a series of papers being published by the Bureau of Mines on mining areas and districts in the Western states. It describes mining and milling practices in the vicinity of Wickenburg in
Jan 1, 1938
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OFR-213-83 Slack And Overload Rope Protection System
By Holt L. Farley
This report describes the development of an electronic system which detects unsafe slack and overload conditions in underground mine hoist ropes. The Slack and Overload Rope Protection System (SORPS)
Jan 1, 1983
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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
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IC 6891 Design And Operation Of A Four-Ton-Per-Hour Gold And Silver Ore-Sampling Plant ? Introduction
By E. D. Gardner
During the summer of 1935 a plan was proposed by which the Government should establish custom sampling plants for gold and silver ores in the mining districts of the West, where the construction of su
Jan 1, 1936
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RI 3949 Exploration of the Gold, Silver, Lead, and Zinc Properties, Eureka Corporation Eureka County, Nevada
By E. O. Binyone
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Dec 1, 1946
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IC 8373 Helium: Bibliography Of Technical And Scientific Literature - January 1, 1947, To January 1, 1962 - A Supplement To Bulletin 484 ? Introduction
Helium has probably aroused more varied scientific curiosity than any other single element. Discovered by spectroscopic examination of the sun during an eclipse in 1868, helium is now known to exist n
Jan 1, 1968
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Quarry Problems In The Lime Industry - Introduction
By Oliver Bowles
Lime is of tremendous importance to modern industries. In agriculture it is regarded as essential to the continued fertility of many important regions; in building it is indispensable, and in the many
Jan 1, 1927
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IC 7111 Operations At The Haile Gold Mine, Kershaw, S. C. ? Introduction
By Edmund Newton
The Haile mine has been the outstanding gold-mining operation and the largest single producer of gold in the Appalachian region. Gold was discovered at the Haile in 1827, previous to the present opera
Jan 1, 1940
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Bulletin 222 Metallurgy of Quicksilver (Mercury)
By L. H. Duschak, C. N. Schuette
In the years 1850 to 1923, the United States produced 2,426,000 flasks- (73,600 metric tons) of quicksilver worth $120,500,000. California yielded 2,195,000 flasks of this total; the remainder came fr
Jan 1, 1925
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IC 9036 Asbestos Availability - Market Economy Countries - A Minerals Availability Program Appraisal
By T. F. Anstett
The Bureau of Mines evaluated the potential availability of chrysotile, amosite, and crocidolite asbestos from 42 properties in market economy countries. This resulted in the development of tonnage-co
Jan 1, 1985
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MLA 9-90 - Mineral Appraisal Of The White River National Forest, Colorado
By S. Don Brown
Between 1987 and 1988, the Bureau of Mines studied the mineral resources of the White River National Forest and part of the Arapaho National Forest to appraise the resources present and to determine t
Jan 1, 1990
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OFR-96(1)-78 Study Of The Use Of Taggants For Explosives Identification - Volume I. National Implementation Model - Executive Summary
Explosives identification tagging refers to the addition to explosives, during manufacture, of coded microparticles that can survive detonation, be recovered and decoded, and allow the explosives to b
Jan 1, 1977
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IC 7907 Mining Methods And Costs, Lincoln Tungsten Mine, Wah Chang Mining Corp., Lincoln County, Nev. ? Summary
By A. C. Johnson
This paper is one of a series being prepared by the Bureau of Mines on exploration, development, mining methods and costs at various mines in the United States. It describes such methods at the Lincol
Jan 1, 1959