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    Halifax Paper - Note on a Self Dumping Water-Tank

    By William Ide Pierce

    It is often desirable to work an old mine that has not been in operation for some time arid that is filled with water. This is especially true in Nova Scotia, where no great depth has yet been reached

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - Note on the Apatite Region of Canada

    By T. Sterry Hunt

    SINCE: the date of my previous paper on this subject, presented at the Cincinnati Meeting, February, 1881, and published in our Transactions, vol. xii., p. 459, I have had occasion to revisit the C

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - Note on the Contraction of Iron on Sudden Cooling

    By Henry M. Howe

    If a bar of wrought iron or steel is suddenly cooled from a bright red-heat, the contraction which then occurs is considerably greater than the expansion previously caused by heating the bar, so that

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Amalgamation of Gold-Ores, arid the Loss of Gold in Chloridizing-Roasting, with Especial Reference to Roasting in a Stetefeldt Furnace

    By C. A. Stetefeldt

    In May and June, 1885, I was engaged in examining the goldores of Las Minas, in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, with a view of finding a cheap and efficient method for extracting the gold. The foll

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Distribution and Proportions of American Blast-Furnaces

    By John Birkinbine

    Much has been contributed to the Transactions of the Institute concerning the construction and operation of American blast-furnares ; but the following compilation is offered as possibly furnishing ad

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Geology of Natural Gas

    By Charles A. Ashburner

    The existence of natural gas-springs in Pennsylvania and the adjoining States west of the crest of the Allegheny Mountains was known to the earliest settlers. Possibly the first gas obtained from a we

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Homogeneity of Open-Hearth Steel

    By H. H. Campbell

    In the extending employment of open-hearth steel for structural purposes, it is a matter of prime importance that the test-piece shall represent with practical accuracy the characteristics of every po

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Improved Brückner Cylinders

    By R. W. Raymond

    THE Brüclrner roasting-cylinder is well known as an apparatus which has done good work in the desulphnrization, particularly of refractory silver ores, in the western districts of this country. A pape

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Manufacture of Iron in Canada

    By James Herbert Bartlett

    The MANUFACTURE of Iron in the PROVINCE of Quebec. The St. Maurice Forges.—The deposits of iron-ore in the St. Maurice district, in the rear of Three Rivers, were probably known to the Indians and

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Pictou Coal-Field

    By Henry S. Poole

    This field is geologically of much interest. It is small, hut with some seams of unusual thickness, the main one being as much as thirty-eight feet thick. The quality of the seams, as also of the asso

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Present Value of Steel Castings

    By Arthur V. Abbott

    During the past four years I have had occasion to make quite extensive use of steel castings in the manufacture of testing-machines and large scales for Messrs. Fairbanks & Co. The failure of some of

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Product and Exhaustion of the Oil-Regions of Pennsylvania and New York

    By Charles A. Ashburner

    The petroleum industry of western Pennsylvania and southwestern New York lias been one of phenomenal development. Greater and more sudden flucuations hare occurred in the price* of crude oil, and in a

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Specific Gravity of Low-Carbon Steel

    By George S. Miller

    Now that low-carbon steel is manufactured successfully in large quantities by the Bessemer process, and threatens to displace wroughtiron for nearly all purposes, it becomes interesting to find how it

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Sydney Coal-Field, Cape Breton, N. S.

    By W. Rutledge

    As is well known, the Sydney coal-field comprises an area of about 200 square miles, being about 32 miles from the month of Big Bras d' Or, on the northwest, to Mira Bay on the southeast, by abou

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Wolf Benzine-Burning Safety-Lamp

    By E. J. Schmitz

    This novel safety-lamp, which was first introduced in some of the German coal-mines in 1882, at once attracted general attention in the coal-districts of Europe. Objections which arose during the earl

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - The Work of the Blast-Furnaces of the North Chicago Rolling-Mill Co.

    By Fred W. Gordon

    The North Chicago Rolling-Mill Co., of Chicago, have four furnaces at South Chicago, built during 1881. Each furnace is 20 feet diameter of bosh, and 75 feet total height, the hearth being 11 feet dia

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halifax Paper - Topographical Models: Their Construction and Uses

    By A. E. Lehman

    A RECENT demand for some form of panoramic display of an important railway line, showing its branches, connections, and terri tory controlled by it, revealed to the writer the advantages of' a to

    Jan 1, 1886

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    Halite Flotation ? New Trends (New Purpose)

    By S. N. Titkov

    Flotation of halite?new, recently begun to be developed method of processing water-soluble minerals. In the paper the results of studies of the new directions of the application of halite flotation ar

    Jan 1, 2014

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    Hall of Fame; Mining Foundation of the Southwest to host 33rd Annual Banquet

    "The 33rd annual American Mining Hall of Fame Awards Banquet and Fundraiser sponsored by the Mining Foundation of the Southwest (MFSW) will be held at the JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa on

    Jan 1, 2015