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  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 144 Report of a Joint Committee Appointed from the BOM and the US Geological Survey

    By BUREAU OF MINES

    In July, 1918, the attention of the Secretary of the Interior WItS called to the rapidly increasing cost of producing gold and the declining output of that metal in the United States. Realizing the im

    Oct 30, 1919

  • NIOSH
    IC 6787 Placer Mining In The Western United States - Part II. Hydraulicking, Treatment Of Placer Concentrates, And Marketing Of Gold ? Introduction

    By E. D. Gardner

    This paper is the second of a series of three on placer mining in the western United States. The first paper4 discusses the history of placer mining in the Western States and the production of placer

    Jan 1, 1934

  • AIME
    The Excursion To Hawaii And Japan.

    By R. W. Raymond

    On the Manchuria. SOMEWHAT fatigued with excess of enjoyment and strenuous continuity of movement on the trip to and through California, the members and guests of the Institute party embarked Tuesday

    Jan 1, 1912

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 195 Underground Conditions in Oil Fields

    By A. W. Ambrose

    The output or oil and gas rrom the producing fields in the United States is rapidly deelining. Coincident with this decline is a steadily increasing demand ror petroleum and its products, but at prese

    Jan 1, 1921

  • NIOSH
    Advanced Materials

    By William J. McDonough

    Advanced materials are polymers, metals, and ceramics fabricated as intermaterial compounds, alloys, or composites. The resultant components have higher strength-to-density ratios, greater hardness an

    Jan 1, 1992

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Facts And Problems 1965 Edition ? Introduction

    By Charles W. Merrill

    THE INDUSTRIAL strength and the security of the United States require an adequate, dependable, and continuing supply of raw materials, of which minerals constitute an indispensable segment. With an ex

    Jan 1, 1965

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Facts And Problems 1975 Edition - Introduction - The Importance Of Minerals In The U.S. Economy-1776-1976

    The contribution of minerals to the growth and development of the United States is best demonstrated by the uses which have evolved during the past two centures. During pre-Revolutionary days the co

    Jan 1, 1976

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 57 Safety and Efficiency in Mine Tunneling

    By John A. Davis, David W. Brunton

    During the past few years great progress has been made in the United States toward safer, more efficient, and more economical tunneling methods. This advance is partly due, no doubt, to the recent inc

    Jan 1, 1916

  • NIOSH
    IC 6786 Placer Mining In The Western United States - Part I. General Information, Hand-Shoveling, And Ground-Sluicing ? Introduction

    By E. D. Gardner

    Placer mining is the mining and treatment of alluvial deposits for the recovery, of their valuable minerals. The method has been used principally for mining gold, but a large proportion of the world&a

    Jan 1, 1934

  • AIME
    Hydraulic Dredging For Gold-Bearing Gravels.

    By Henry G. Granger

    I. INTRODUCTION. REPEATED failures in attempts to work gold-bearing gravels by means of suction-dredges have created the impression that this method is impracticable. The suction-dredges have failed

    Apr 1, 1909

  • NIOSH
    Abrasive Materials (MATERIALS MINERALS YEARBOOK-1988)

    By Gordon T. Austin

    The combined value of production of natural abrasives, which includes tripoli, special silica stone, garnet, staurolite, and emery, increased about 9% in 1988. In the case of emery, the increase was d

    Jan 1, 1990

  • NIOSH
    Abrasive Materials

    By Gordon T. Austin

    The combined value of production of natural abrasives, which includes tripoli, special silica stone, garnet, staurolite, and emery, increased about 21070 in 1989. The increase in the value of stauroli

    Jan 1, 1991

  • NIOSH
    A Glossary Of The Mining And Mineral Industry. - Introduction.

    By Albert H. Fay

    This glossary is published by the Bureau of Mines as a contribution to the mining literature in the belief that it will fill a long-felt need. It contains about 20,000 terms; these include both techni

    Jan 1, 1920

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 95 A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry

    By Albert H. Fay

    This glossary is publi~hed- by the Bureau of Mines as a contribution' to the mining literature in the belief that it will fill a long-felt need. It contains about 20,000 terms; these include both tech

    Jan 1, 1920

  • NIOSH
    Abrasive Materials (Materials Minerals Yearbook - 1989)

    By Gordon T. Austin

    The combined production value of natural abrasives, which consist of tripoli, special silica stone, garnet, staurolite, and emery, increased in 1987. The increase was, in certain cases, because the ma

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Mineral Economics

    By Michael Rieber

    Mineral economics interfaces the mineral sciences and engineering with finance and economics in the analysis of appropriate questions facing the minerals and energy industries. Its practitioners inclu

    Jan 1, 2008

  • NIOSH
    Abrasive Materials (ABRASIVE MATERIALS- 1993)

    By Gordon T. Austin

    The combined value of production of natural abrasives, which include tripoli, special silica stone, garnet, staurolite, and emery, increased in 1993. The increase in the value of tripoli production wa

    Jan 1, 1993

  • NIOSH
    Abrasive Materials (Materials Minerals Yearbook-1993)

    By Gordon T. Austin

    The combined value of production of natural abrasives, which include tripoli, special silica stone, garnet, staurolite, and emery, increased about 4% in 1990. The increase in the value of tripoli prod

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Issues Of The 1970's: Government Over-Regulation

    By Eugene Guccione

    The US mining industry today is fighting for its existence. We are plagued by the shortage of materials, of equipment, of fuels, of capital, of manpower. If we solve those shortages, we are then frust

    Jan 1, 1975

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 127 Gold Dredging in the United States

    By Charles Janin

    The recovery of gold from sands and gravels is one of the oldest forms of mining; it antedates history and has been practiced by savage peoples. In North America the search for placer gold has been a

    Jan 1, 1918