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Rubber-Sheathed Trailing Cables

Description: From Introduction: "This paper records activities of the United States Bureau of Mines covering several years and reflects its endeavor to be of service to the coal-mining industry in procuring safer trailing cables for use on permissible machines."
Date: 1932
Creator: Ilsley, L. C.; Hooker, A. B. & Coggeshall, E. J.
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Permissible Electric Cap Lamps and Ventilation in Certain California Mines and Water-Tunnel Construction

Description: From Introduction: "As a result of the recommendations of this committee, special studies have been made of the methane hazards incident to mining and tunneling operations in the Coast Range Mountains. These studies have resulted in the adoption of numerous safety precautionary measures; among them the use of permissible types of mining equipment, electric cap lamps, with which this deals with primarily."
Date: 1932
Creator: Ash, S. H. (Simon Harry), b. 1889 & Rankin, J. H.
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Gases that Occur in Metal Mines

Description: From Conclusions: "Many gases are harmful to man are widely prevalent in metal mines. They influence the safety, health and efficiency of miners; workers and officials should therefore become much more familiar with there occurrence, detection, and handling. The principal means of combating these gases are proper ventilation of all parts of a mine and the adoption of measures to minimize fire hazards and to control a mine fire promptly should it occur."
Date: 1931
Creator: Harrington, D. & Denny, E. H.
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Liquid-Oxygen Explosives

Description: From Introduction: "The purpose of this bulletin is to examine the advantages and disadvantages of L. O. X., both in the light of experimental investigations by the Bureau of Mines and the results in actual blasting, and to discuss the probable future fields of usefulness for this novel type of explosive."
Date: 1932
Creator: Perrott, G. St. J. & Tolch, N. A.
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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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Contributions to the Data on Theoretical Metallurgy: [Part] 1. The Entropies of Inorganic Substances

Description: From Introduction: "The present work is an attempt to collect all the available data referring to one important thermodynamic property and to supply sufficient discussion to make the results readily usable by metallurgists. In the study of chemical or metallurgical reactions two factors have predominant importance-the free energy of reaction and the speed of reaction. The subject of this publication is so closely allied to the former that may be well to consider briefly some of the uses to whic… more
Date: 1932
Creator: Kelley, K. K.
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Mining Petroleum by Underground Methods: A study of Methods used in France and Germany and Possible Application to Depleted Oil Fields under American Conditions

Description: From Introduction: "That the percentages of extraction of petroleum from the ground may and undoubtedly will be greatly increased in the future by underground mining methods where natural conditions will permit seems logical. The limitations imposed by depth, temperature, and flow of water under high pressure through the sands will be discussed later."
Date: 1932
Creator: Rice, George S.
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Safety Practices in California Gold Dredging

Description: From Introduction Purpose of Report: "The importance of safety work in connection with the operations of gold dredges assumed such proportions at one time that the State of California deemed it necessary to issue a special bulletin on this subject."
Date: 1932
Creator: Ash, S. H. (Simon Harry), b. 1889
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Tests of Rock-Dust Barriers in the Experimental Mine

Description: From Introduction: "The results summarized above are discussed in appropriate sections of this paper. One section is also devoted to barrier installations in commercial mines and gives the experience and opinion of the authors on the matter. The final sections deal with theoretical considerations involved in barrier operation."
Date: 1932
Creator: Rice, George S.; Greenwald, H. P. & Howarth, H. C.
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The Ignition of Fire Damp by Explosives: A Study of the Process of Ignition by the Schlieren Method

Description: From Introduction: "The rupture of this paper by the explosion provided by the explosion provided rapid release for the pressure developed. The charge of explosive was placed in the bore of a cannon communicating with the gallery through a central hole in the steel plate. The apparatus is shown in Figures 1 and 2, which are reproduced from Perrott and Gawthrop's paper. In the event of a nonignition the flame from the explosive only was recorded."
Date: 1932
Creator: Shepherd, W. C. F.
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Coal-Mine Fatalities in the United States, 1929

Description: Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatalities 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: 1931
Creator: Adams, William W.
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Permissible Coal-Handling Equipment: Approved from January, 1926, to December, 1930, Inclusive

Description: From Description of Permissible Loaders and Conveyors: "The following descriptions of permissible loading machines and conveyors now included in the bureau's list of approved equipment are given to indicate to mine operators not only the types available but also show to some extent the special features employed in designing machines that minimize the hazard of gas and dust ignitions. Furthermore, the authors hope that the descriptions will have some value to manufactures who may contemplate ent… more
Date: 1931
Creator: Ilsley, L. C.; Gleim, E. J. & Brunot, H. B.
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Methods and Apparatus Used in Determining the Gas, Coke, and By-Product Making Properties of American Coals: with Results on a Taggart-Bed Coal from Roda, Wise County, Virginia

Description: From Introduction: "The results of this preliminary investigation, which were reported to the association at the 1928 convention, indicated, first, that fundamental information on the mechanism of carbonization throughout the entire range from low to high temperature coking is desired and, second, that a uniform basis upon which to compare the carbonizing properties of different coals should be developed."
Date: 1931
Creator: Fieldner, A. C.; Davis, J. D.; Thiessen, R.; Kester, E. B. & Selvig, W. A.
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Concrete Stoppings in Coal Mines for Resisting Explosions: Detailed Tests of Typical Stoppings and Strength of Coal as a Buttress

Description: From Forward: "This paper gives the details of tests to determine the design of stoppings capable of withstanding a pressure, applied to either side, of 50 pounds per square inch, as required by section 104 (a) of the Operating Regulations to Govern Coal-Mining Methods on Leased Lands on the Public Domain, issued in 1921 and quoted on page 3."
Date: 1931
Creator: Rice, George S.; Greenwald, H. P.; Howarth, H. C. & Avins, S.
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Physical Testing of Explosives at the Bureau of Mines Explosives Experiment Station, Bruceton, Pennsylvania

Description: From Introduction: "The methods of making the physical tests of explosives recorded here are based upon the results of more than 20 years of experience of the staff of the explosives division of the Bureau of Mines at the Pittsburgh testing station and at its successor, the Explosives Experiment Station, Bruceton, Pa. The methods are described in unusual detail to permit repetition that will duplicate, as nearly as possible, the precise manner in which they have been performed in the past and t… more
Date: 1931
Creator: Munroe, Charles E. & Tiffany, J. E.
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Ventilation of the Large Copper Mines of Arizona

Description: Introduction: "This bulletin discusses ventilation methods, practices, and costs at 11 large copper mines in Arizona, as obtained by brief personal studies and from supplementary information furnished by the mine managements. These mines were visited from December, 1928, to November, 1929, and the methods and practices in use when visited are described in some detail."
Date: 1930
Creator: McElroy, G. E.
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Permissible Methane Detectors

Description: From Function of Methane Detectors: "The object of this paper is to present to the mining public the results of the permissibility tests of the detectors that have been approved, also to give the results of a series of tests conducted to determine their practicability."
Date: 1930
Creator: Hooker, A. B.; Fene, W. J. & Currie, R. D.
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Permissible Electric Mine Lamps

Description: From Introduction: "This paper gives a brief account of the introduction of electric lighting in mines, reviews some of the preliminary and approval work on electric mine lamps up to July, 1917, when a previous bulletin on electric lamps was issued, and describes the lamp-approval work from that date of July, 1930."
Date: 1930
Creator: Ilsley, L. C. & Hooker, A. B.
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Refining of Light Petroleum Distillates

Description: From Scope of Report: "The first part of this report deals with the principal methods of refining light petroleum products, the equipment used, and the effects of the different refining agents. The second part of the report deals with a study of the value of fractionation as an aid to the refining of pressure distillates."
Date: 1930
Creator: Rue, H. P. & Espach, Ralph H.
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Quicksilver

Description: From Introduction: "Material for this report was gathered during the last quarter of 1928 and the first quarter of 1929, when the author visited the quick-silver-producing districts of California, Nevada, Texas, Oregon, Washington and Arizona to view the progress made in recent years and gather material for a comprehensive study of the present-day quicksilver industry of the United States."
Date: 1931
Creator: Schuette, C. N.
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Jigging, Classification, Tabling, and Flotation Tests of Coals Presenting Difficult Washing Problems, with Particular Reference to Coals from Pierce County, Washington

Description: From Content and Arrangement of Report: "For the convenience of the reader the bulletin has been divided into two parts. Part I describes the investigation and summarizes the most important results. Part II gives the detailed data of the best of the washing tests by each process."
Date: 1931
Creator: Bird, B. M. & Marshall, S. M.
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Rock-Strata Gases of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado and Their Effect on Mining

Description: From Introduction: "The presence in the Cripple Creek district, Colo., of irrespirable gas or gases, generally known to consist mainly of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, has been recognized by members of the mining industry in that region almost since underground mining was begun there; the occurrence origin, and possible control of these gases have been discussed in several articles cited at various places in this report. Similar gases have also been studied in other metal-mining districts, as la… more
Date: 1930
Creator: Denny, E. H.; Marshall, K. L.; Fieldner, A. C.; Emery, A. H.; Yant, W. P. & Selvig, W. A.
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