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Mineral Resources of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Description: From introduction: This report details the mineral resources of Kenai Peninsula.
Date: 1906
Creator: Moffit, Fred H. & Stone, Ralph W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Limestones of Southwestern Pennsylvania

Description: From introduction: This report is a summary of the present knowledge of limestone beds in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Date: 1905
Creator: Clapp, Frederick G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Zinc and Lead Deposits of Northwestern Illinois

Description: From introduction: The subject of this paper is the district of the extreme northwestern portion of Illinois, included in the upper Mississippi Valley containing zinc and lead.
Date: 1905
Creator: Bain, Harry Foster
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Reports on the Juneau and Admiralty Island Areas, Alaska]

Description: From introduction: From introduction: The present report upon the work of this field season is accompanied by topographic and geologic maps of the vicinity of Juneau, and of a mainland strip extending approximately 200 miles along the coast.
Date: 1906
Creator: Spencer, Arthur C. & Wright, Charles Will
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Economic Geology of the Independence Quadrangle, Kansas

Description: From introduction: The aim of this paper is to present the substance of what is known concerning the distribution, occurrence, and development of the oil and gas of the quadrangle, and to note briefly the more important industries growing out of these natural resources or depending on them within the territory considered.
Date: 1906
Creator: Schrader, Frank C. & Haworth, Erasmus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oil Fields of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coastal Plain

Description: From introduction: This report presents the findings of surveys of the extent of the oil fields in the gulf coastal plain.
Date: 1903
Creator: Hayes, C. W. & Kennedy, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Fairhaven Gold Placers, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Description: From letter of transmittal: This manuscript is based on geologic and topographic reconnaissance survey, made during the summer of 1903, of an important placer-gold district in the northeastern part of Seward Peninsula.
Date: 1905
Creator: Moffit, Fred H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Methods and Costs of Gravel and Placer Mining in Alaska

Description: From letter of transmittal: It is believed that this report will stimulate the mining industry by making available, in compact form, the accumulated results of the experience of mining men in this field and by directing attention to those mining methods developed in older districts which appear to be adapted to the conditions prevailing in Alaska.
Date: 1905
Creator: Purington, Chester Wells
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Yukon-Tanana Region, Alaska: Description of Circle Quadrangle

Description: From preface: In planning the surveys and investigations of Alaska, the attempt was made to cover first those regions which were of the greatest economic importance.
Date: 1906
Creator: Prindle, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Coal Resources of the Yukon, Alaska

Description: An examination of coal deposits along the Yukon River conducted in 1902 mostly along the river banks from Dawson, Yukon to the delta.
Date: 1903
Creator: Collier, Arthur J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report on Progress of Investigations of Mineral Resources of Alaska in 1905

Description: From introduction: This report contains papers on summaries of progress in various phases of the mining industry during the last year, preliminary accounts of investigations in progress or completed, and statements of the results of minor investigations not to be published elsewhere.
Date: 1905
Creator: Brooks, Alfred H. (Alfred Hulse), 1871-1924
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Report on the Ketchikan Mining District, Alaska, with an Introductory Sketch of the Geology of Southeastern Alaska

Description: From introduction: Since 1898 the United States Geological Survey has been carrying on a systematic investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska.As the northern mining districts of southeastern Alaska had already been the subject of an investigation by Dr. Becker in 1895,a and as the Ketchikan district was being rapidly developed, it was decided to spend the greater part of the short season in the Ketchikan district and in the fall to make a more hasty reconnaissance of the northern belt, i… more
Date: 1902
Creator: Brooks, Alfred Hulse
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report on Progress of Investigations of Mineral Resources of Alaska in 1904

Description: From letter of transmittal: The report contains fourteen papers, prepared by ten members of the geologic corps, who have been engaged in Alaskan investigations during the last year. In this report an attempt has been made to summarize the economic results of last season's field work. Geologic matter has been entirely excluded, except where it has a direct bearing on the subjects under discussion. While such a report can have no permanent value, other than as a record of mining conditions during… more
Date: 1905
Creator: Brooks, Alfred H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Contributions to Economic Geology: 1904

Description: From letter of transmittal: The report contains 63 contributions from 37 members of the Survey who have been engaged more or less continuously throughout the year in economic work, together with brief statements by the geologists in charge of the section of metalliferous ores and the section of nonmetalliferous economic minerals, of the extent and character of the economic work being carried on in the Survey.
Date: 1905
Creator: Emmons, Samuel Franklin & Hayes, C. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Reconnaissance of the Northwestern Portion of Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Description: From introduction: In response to an urgent demand by the public, the Geological Survey, in 1900, undertook a topographic and geologic reconnaissance of the southern half of the Seward Peninsula.( The area mapped embraced the more important gold fields of the peninsula. The topographic map made in 1900 included the drainage of Bering Sea from Cape Darby to Port Clarence, the southern drainage of Grantley Harbor and Imuruk Basin, and the northern drainage of Norton Sound. A geologic reconnaissan… more
Date: 1902
Creator: Collier, Arthur J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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