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Oil Shale: An Historical, Technical, and Economic Study

Description: Revised report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing studies conducted on the development of the oil-shale industry from a historical, technical, and economic perspective. Results of the studies are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1924
Creator: Gavin, Martin J.
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Oil-Shale: An Historical, Technical, and Economic Study

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing studies conducted on the development of the oil-shale industry from a historical, technical, and economic perspective. Results of the studies are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: July 1922
Creator: Gavin, Martin J.
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Oil-Shale Mining, Rifle, Colorado, 1944-56

Description: From Introduction: "Detailed reports on various phases of the oil-shale mining research program have been published by the Bureau of Mines as Reports of Investigations, and numerous articles prepared by the mine staff have been published in the technical press. Summarizes of some of these publications are included in this report with other information not previously published."
Date: 1964
Creator: East, J. H., Jr. & Gardner, E. D.
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Oil-Shale Operations in New South Wales, Australia

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the oil-shale operations at New South Wales, Australia in 1947. The methods, and types of equipment used are presented. The report includes maps, photographs, and illustrations of the oil-shale refinery.
Date: July 1951
Creator: Kraemer, A. J. & Thorne, H. M.
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Oil-Shale Operations in the Union of South Africa: October 1947

Description: Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over production of oil-shale facilities in South Africa. The deposits of oil-shales, and torbanites are described. The operations at the production facilities are also presented. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: January 1954
Creator: Thorne, H. M. & Kraemer, A. J.
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Oil-storage Tanks and Reservoirs with a Brief Discussion of Losses of Oil in Storage and Methods of Prevention

Description: From Introduction: "The Bureau of Mines has been conducting investigations with the view of determining the types of containers best adapted to the storage of oil. These investigations have shown that tanks composed wholly of steel give the best results. Practically all such containers in use at present have wooden roofs and this type of construction is here described, although it is the belief of the writer that concrete roofs would be far more satisfactory in every way, and that the differenc… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Bowie, C. P.
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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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Open-Pit Copper Mining Methods and Costs at the Bagdad Mine, Bagdad Copper Corporation, Yavapai County, Arizona

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the open-pit copper mining of Yavapai County, Arizona. As stated in the summary, "mining methods, including breaking ground, primary drilling and blasting, secondary drilling and blasting, loading, transportation, engineering, and operating control, are described" (p. 1). This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1959
Creator: Hardwick, W. R. & Jones, E. L., III
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Open Schedules for Gold and Silver Ores and Concentrates at Western Custom Smelters

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the smelting schedules for the operators of silver and gold mines. As stated in the introduction, "the paper discusses smelting schedules, general smelting practices that have a bearing on rates, and the reasons for penalties or credits for certain constituents of ores" (p. 1). This report includes tables.
Date: December 1936
Creator: Gardner, E. D. & Allsman, Paul T.
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Operating Details of Gas Producers

Description: From Introduction: "During the early years of these plants little success was anticipated from the use of bituminous coals and lignites, but in 1904 and 1905 it was fully demonstrated at Government testing station at St. Louis that these fuels could be utilized to excellent advantage. However, although many producer-gas plants in daily operation are still skeptical regarding the successful commercial use of these fuels."
Date: 1916
Creator: Fernald, R. H.
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Operation of a Powdered-Coal Gasifier at Louisiana, Missouri

Description: Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the operations of a coal-conversion plant in Missouri. Description of the plant with an emphasis on powdered-coal gasification is presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: April 1954
Creator: Dressler, R. G.; Batchelder, H. R.; Tenney, R. F.; Wenzell, L. P., Jr. & Hirst, L. L.
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Operation of Experimental Plant for Producing Alumina from Anorthosite

Description: From Preface: "This Bulletin provides a permanent record of the operation of an experimental alumina plant by the Bureau of Mines at Laramine, Wyo. The broad purpose of this experimental program was to appraise the technologic and economic feasibility of producing aluminum from nonbauxitic ores."
Date: 1959
Creator: St. Clair, Hillary W.; Elkins, Douglas A.; Shibler, Bertram K.; Mahan, Warren M.; Merritt, Robert C.; Howcroft, Mark R. et al.
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Optical Properties of Coals and Graphite

Description: From Abstract: "Optical Properties of U.S. coals of differing rank have been investigated by the Bureau of Mines for about 20 years. These investigations have been made to further the development of an objective basis for petrographic analysis of coal and to add knowledge of the structure and composition of coal and coal components by determining their optical constants in various regions of electromagnetic spectrum."
Date: 1967
Creator: McCartney, J. T. & Ergun, S.
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The Origin of Coal

Description: From Introduction: "The purpose of the studies that form the basis of this report was to learn from microscopic examinations of coal how far and in what ways the grouping of coal by types depends on differences in the kinds of plant material from which it was formed and on the conditions of its accumulation, or how far the special characters or qualities of coal of any type were determined by the nature and the state of the plate debris from which the coal was formed."
Date: 1913
Creator: White, David & Thiessen, Reinhardt
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Outlook and Research Possibilities for Bituminous Coal

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing research conducted on the bituminous coal industry in the United States. As stated in the introduction, "in addition to research and development work of the coal industry, that of associated industries and coal consumers is covered" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: May 1956
Creator: United States. Bureau of Mines.
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An Overview of Research on Self-Contained Self-Rescuer Training

Description: From Abstract: "During the next 5 years investigators examined a number of factors that have a bearing upon miners' ability to put on and use the apparatus in an emergency: the procedure being taught; availability and utilization of training models; opportunities to practice; hygiene; and on-the-job-training. This report presents an overview of that research."
Date: 1993
Creator: Vaught, Charles; Brnich, Michael J., Jr.; Wiehagen, William J.; Cole, Henry P. & Kellner, Henry J.
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Oxidation of Aromatic Compounds by Bacteria

Description: From Introduction: "The material in this paper is about central paths and how bacterial enzymes manipulate and cleave the aromatic ring with the formation of hydroxylated aromatic ring with the formation
Date: 1962
Creator: Rogoff, Martin H. & Wender, Irving
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Oxides in Pig Iron: Their Origin and Action in the Steel-Making Process

Description: From Introduction: "In summarizing the evidence in the literature it is apparent that there is general agreement among furnace men on the existence of so-called "bad-iron." It is also evident that the existence of dissolved or occluded gases is not an explanation. The presence of suspended oxides has been proved, and at least one plausible explanation for their formation has been given."
Date: 1929
Creator: Herty, C. H., Jr. & Gaines, J. M., Jr.
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Pacific Manganese Nodules: Characterization and Processing

Description: From Abstract: "The Bureau of Mines conducted research to provide technical information needed to devise waste management plans for the processing of manganese nodules.Studies included summary descriptions of Pacific manganese nodules, process options and flowsheets, method for characterizing nodules and their tailings, and results of analyses of laboratory and pilot-plant generated tailings. A summary of the extensive literature review is provided for manganese nodule mineralogy, chemistry, pr… more
Date: 1985
Creator: Haynes, Benjamin W.; Law, Stephen L.; Barron, David C.; Kramer, Gary W.; Maeda, Riki & Magyar, Michael J.
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Paraffin and Congealing-Oil Problems

Description: From Scope of Report: "This report is in two parts-the major or first part is a discussion of the results obtained from field studies of the factors responsible for the deposition of paraffin and the congealing of oil and of practical methods of combating these problems. The second part of the report deals with the analyses of crude waxes or paraffin obtained from different representatives crude oils."
Date: 1932
Creator: Reistle, C. E., Jr.
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Passage of Solid Particles Through Rotary Cylindrical Kilns

Description: Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on rotary kilns. As stated in the introduction, "the object of this study was to determine the factors that influence the rate of progress of crushed materials through a kiln" (p. 1). This paper includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1927
Creator: Sullivan, John D.; Maier, Charles G. & Ralston, Oliver C.
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