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Some Essential Safety Factors in Tunneling

Description: From Purpose of Report: "This paper is based partly upon the authors' observations and partly upon studies of tunnel driving; these cover essentially all types of tunnels in various parts of the United States during the past 25 years."
Date: 1941
Creator: Harrington, D. & Ash, S. H. (Simon Harry), b. 1889
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Metal- and Nonmetal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1939 (Excluding Coal Mines)

Description: Report published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines regarding accidents at mines located in the United States for all operations except coal mines. The report includes statistics about the number and kinds of accidents as well as information about the mining operations (i.e., number of persons employed, average amount of work performed per person, etc.).
Date: 1941
Creator: Adams, William W. & Kolhos, Mary E.
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Contributions to the Data on Theoretical Metallurgy: [Part] 9. The Entropies of Inorganic Substances. Revision (1940) of Data and Methods of Calculation

Description: From Introduction: "This bulletin originally was planned as a second revision of the first member of this series, the first revision (249) having appeared in 1936; however, because of requests for the explanatory, section of the first bulletin from those teaching thermodynamics, it was decided to combine the information in the first bulletin and its revision with the data that have appeared since 1935 and to repeat the explanatory material in somewhat more detail. The purpose of this bulletin i… more
Date: 1941
Creator: Kelley, K. K.
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Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1938

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines covering accidents that happened in metal mines located in the United States including statistics for injuries, fatalities, kinds and causes of accidents, and operational data, such as number of mine workers and shifts worked.
Date: 1941
Creator: Adams, William W. & Kolhos, Mary E.
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Sponge Chromium

Description: From Introduction: "There follows discussion of the reduction processes suitable for preparing sponge chromium from the chlorides, and finally the question of special methods required to insure the production of a high-purity product is investigated. This order is a natural and chronological one as well as being suited to the needs of presenting an analytic picture of the experimental work and its results and proposals engendered."
Date: 1942
Creator: Maier, C. G.
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Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1938

Description: Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatal and non-fatal accidents in coal mines located in the United States as well as data regarding the various operations (e.g., number of miners employed and average production). The information is organized into tables for comparison and the text draws some overall conclusions in the summary.
Date: 1941
Creator: Adams, W. W.; Geyer, L. E. & Parry, M. G.
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Fire-Retardant Treatments of Liquid-Oxygen Explosives

Description: From Introduction Present Investigation: "The scope of the investigation was limited to study of the effects of fire-retardant treatments on the resistance to ignition, physical characteristics, and practical hazards of handling the liquid-oxygen explosive prepared from the granular carbonaceous absorbent mentioned, from wrappers of a triple-filled canvas, and from a liquid oxygen of standard high purity."
Date: 1940
Creator: Denues, A. R. T.
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Mechanical Shoveling in Underground Metal Mines

Description: From Scope of Bulletin: "The object of the current bulletin is to present recent data on mechanical shoveling in underground metal mines and in selected nonmetal mines. This bulletin supplements the 1924 edition, but the main discussion covers mechanical shoveling only, because most of the new material relates to equipment recently developed, to improved technique in loading, and ti changes in loading practice in certain mining districts."
Date: 1940
Creator: Mosier, McHenry & Steinmesch, J. H.
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Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1937

Description: Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatal and non-fatal accidents in coal mines located in the United States as well as data regarding the various operations (e.g., number of miners employed and average production). The information is organized into tables for comparison and the text draws some overall conclusions in the summary.
Date: 1940
Creator: Adams, William W.; Geyer, L. E. & Parry, M. G.
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Mechanical Concentration of Gases

Description: From Introduction: "This bulletin deals with a new mechanical means of attacking the problem of separation. Although it is improbable that any one type of separation could hope to find universal application, the method described is to be regarded as an alternative to conventional means that has attractive possibilities in certain instances."
Date: 1940
Creator: Maier, C. G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1938

Description: Report published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines which is a compilation of accidents in quarries located in the United States with data regarding the number and kinds of accidents as well as information about the mining operations (e.g., number of men employed, kinds of quarries, amount of work performed, etc.).
Date: 1940
Creator: Adams, William W. & Wrenn, Virginia E.
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Open-Cut Metal Mining

Description: Report discussing open-cut mining at the metal mines of the United States. It is an applicable method to flat-lying mineral deposits relatively near the surface.
Date: 1941
Creator: Gardner, E. D. & Mosier, McHenry
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The National Fuel Efficiency Program During the War Years, 1943-45

Description: From Forward: "This bulletin describes how the work was accomplished, including the functioning of the central office, the division of the nation into working areas, the acquiring of volunteer workers, the functioning of the area offices, and achievement of publicity. Representative resulting fuel saving at a number of individual plants are listed, as well as the estimated over-all accomplishments. This report should be of future value as an example of national organizing of volunteer workers, … more
Date: 1949
Creator: Barkley, J. F.; Cheasley, Thomas C.; Waddell, K. M. & Waddell, K. M.
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Safety Practices in Dredging and Hydraulic Mining

Description: From Scope of Report: "This paper is based upon the observations made and the records received while dredging and hydraulic-mining operations were visited in Alaska during 1946 and in California during 1946 and 1947. Data from 30 active dredging operations and 34 active hydraulic operations are incorporated in this paper."
Date: 1948
Creator: Fatzinger, R. W.
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Safety and Performance Characteristics of Liquid-Oxygen Explosives

Description: From Scope of Report: "This bulletin is confined chiefly to a discussion of tunnels and adits for mining purposes, such as drainage, transportation, or development, but it also discusses those used to carry water for power, irrigation, or domestic use, in which the essential features are practically identical with mine tunnels."
Date: 1949
Creator: Tournay, W. E.; Bower, F. M. & Brown, F. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Contributions to the Data on Theoretical Metallurgy: [Part] 10. High-temperature Heat-Content, Heat-Capacity, and Entropy Data for Inorganic Compounds

Description: From Introduction: "This work is both a revision and an elaboration of Bureau of Mines Bulletin 371, which was published in 1934 and included data available to October 1933. This bulletin purposes to collect and correlate all available high-temperature heat-content and specific-heat data for inorganic substances and to formulate tables and algebraic expressions for their representation. It is expected also that this bulletin will have value to those teaching courses in metallurgical and chemica… more
Date: 1949
Creator: Kelley, K. K.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1942

Description: Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatal and non-fatal accidents in coal mines located in the United States as well as data regarding the various operations (e.g., number of miners employed and average production). The information is organized into tables for comparison and the text draws some overall conclusions in the summary.
Date: 1944
Creator: Adams, W. W. & Geyer, L. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mineral-Dressing Characteristics of the Red Iron Ores of Birmingham, Alabama

Description: From Introduction: "The scope of this paper is such that it was deemed advisable to group the contents into several main sections. They are: Section I. Geography and Geology. Section II. Historical Review. (a) Mining and Smelting in Alabama. (b) Milling. (c) Summary of Milling Research. These two sections are primarily a bibliography and summary of the research on the Birmingham Red Mountain ores up to the middle 1940's."
Date: 1946
Creator: Coghill, Will H. & Coe, G. Dale
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