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OFR-22-73 Fatality Analysis Data Base Development - Description Of The Study - Background Of The Study
This report summarizes the results of a research project entitled "Fatal Accident Data Base Development." This project is the last project under Contract No. S0110601. Volumes I and 1I, "Industrial En
Jan 1, 1972
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IC 8481 Injury Experience In The Nonmetallic Mineral Industries (Except Stone And Coal), 1964-65
By Forrest T. Moyer
[The safety record of the nonmetal mining industry during 1965 way worse than that of 1961 in all general measures s of injury experience except for a slight improvement in the number and frequency ra
Jan 1, 1970
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OFR-12-84 Survey Of Ground Surface Conditions Affecting Structural Response To Subsidence
By R. W. Bruhn
The objective of the study is to examine the apparent influence of soil and near surface rock strata on the severity of damage experienced by surface structures subjected to mine subsidence. The repor
Jan 1, 1983
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Development Of The Bureau Of Mines Gas-Combustion Oil-Shale Retorting Process
By Arthur Matzick
[1-1 1y IilJLJ,I~X" K pl.rw~~ts rt1s11l s I'I.IIIII 1.c1sc.n rcnlb cind d(~\,elopmrnt rnr- ried oitt by tllc* Illll.cv111 of .\li~~css (111 rlrc. ~ns-c-o~l~l)i~s~io~l oil-sllnlr rcdorting proc-rs
Jan 1, 1966
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Coal-Mine Accidents In The United States 1935 - Introduction
By W. W. Adams
In mining coal, the Nation's principal mineral fuel, loss of life has been much lower recently than in earlier years when coal mining contributed so heavily to the industrial-accident death toll
Jan 1, 1938
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Qualitative And Quantitative Aspects Of Crude Oil Composition
By Harold M. Smith
This publication summarizes the literature on the composition of petroleum, with special emphasis on naphtha and gas oil, and provides a source book for the known qualitative and quantitative facts on
Jan 1, 1968
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Review Of Literature On Effects Of Breathing Dusts With Special Reference To Silicosis - Introduction
By D. Harrington
Dust diseases are much before the public at present, but little reliable information on the subject is readily available to the layman; even those rated as experts usually have a more or less theoreti
Jan 1, 1937
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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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RI 8448 Experiments in Hot-Rolling and Forging of Ductile Cast Iron
By L. A. Neumeier
The Bureau of Mines investigated hot-rolling and forging characteristics of experimental ductile iron castings, both sand and permanent-mold, made with charges containing up to 70 pct foundry pig iron
Jan 1, 1980
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IC 7171 Developments In The American Petroleum Industry, 1914-19 Exploration, Drilling, Production, And Transportation (A Review And Digest) ? Background
By H. C. Fowler
Technical developments in the American petroleum industry as regards exploration, drilling, production, and transportation were characterized by many anomalous conditions during the half decade 1914-1
Jan 1, 1941
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OFR-72-79 Feasibility Of Longwall Mining In Non-Fossil Fuel Deposits.
By Kenneth Wardell
Those flat lying, bedded or replacement, non-fossil fuel deposits which exist within the U.S.A., and which are amenable to longwall mining, are identified by reference to three principal factors assoc
Jan 1, 1978
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Fluorine Micas
By Haskiel R. Shell
While the original purpose of the Bureau of Mines work on fluorine micas was to synthesize large single crystals or film suitable to replace natural muscovite or phlogopite, the objective was broadene
Jan 1, 1969
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IC 6312 Radium ? Foreword
By Paul M. Tyler
The literature on radium is already voluminous, but mcuh of it is too technical to be intelligible to the average reader, and there is no single publication that covers certain economic features of th
Jan 1, 1930
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OFR-12-81 Investigation Of The Effects Of Weak Floor Conditions On The Stability Of Coal Pillars
By John D. Rockaway
Failure of the mine floor supporting coal pillars frequently occurs when the subcoal strata include "underclays" or other low strength strata. The failure process has been studied to define the respon
Jan 1, 1979
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International Land Reclamation And Mine Drainage Conference And Third International Conference On The Abatement Of Acidic Drainage - Volume 3 Of 4: Reclamation And Revegetation
Mine drainage and mine reclamation are topics of major interest to the mining industry, federal and local governments, and the general public. This publication and its companion three volumes are the
Jan 1, 1994
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IC 7818 Packaged-Fuel Plants In The United States That Reported Production In 1956 ? Summary And Introduction
By Eugene T. Sheridan
The 22d annual survey of the packaged-fuel industry by the Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior, revealed that 26 plants in 8 States were in operation and reported production in 1
Jan 1, 1958
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IC 6775 How Can The Bureau Of Mines Most Effectively Serve Mining? (The Bureau And The South)
By Milton H. Fies
To present some idea as to how the Bureau of Mines may most effectively serve mining, it is necessary that we make some resume of its pact accomplishments in order to determine what, if any, changes w
Jan 1, 1934
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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
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RI 5597 Studies Of Several Flocculants To Improve Hydraulic Backfill Characteristics ? Introduction
By John D. Bardill
A cooperative project between the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, and the Montana School of Mines, investigating results of hydraulic systems for transporting sand slurries for emplacemen
Jan 1, 1960
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IC 8818 The Physical Chemistry Of Mineral-Reagent Interactions In Sulfide Flotation - Proceedings Of Symposium Held At College Park, Md., April 6-7, 1978
This: symposium was sponsored by the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the lnterior, in order to critically examine the state-of-the-art of sulfide flotation chemistry and to define current and emer
Jan 1, 1980