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  • AIME
    Engineering Opportunities in Oriental Countries

    By John Wellington Finch

    WHAT is an engineering opportunity? To the mining .engineer the natural assumption is that the first requisite 'is a mineral deposit, but, of course, it is not so simple as that. There are at var

    Jan 1, 1924

  • AIME
    Canada as a Gold Producer

    By John Wellington Finch

    THE- impression which the public has of northern Canada is that it is a' vast wilderness of forests; river's, and. lakes, sparsely inhabited by. a few Indians and `containing a few, scattere

    Jan 1, 1924

  • AIME
    Heinrich Oscar Hofman

    By Heinrich Oscar Hofman

    IN THE death of Professor Hofman who was born on Aug. 13, 1852 and died on April 28, 1924, the world has lost a great metallurgist and a great author of metallurgical literature. Measured in time his

    Jan 1, 1924

  • AIME
    What Is Wrong With Oil Shale?

    By GEORGE ROBERT DE BEQUE

    WHAT is wrong with oil shale? The answer is of interest to the public, to the oil refiner, and to the engineer. Many people have invested in shale land or shale securities, and others would invest if

    Jan 1, 1924

  • AIME
    The Engineer's Relation to Finance

    By Lucius W. Mayer

    WHILE the mind of the financier does not normally run along channels similar to those of his technical adviser, engineers, because of their exactness, are ever more called upon to manage affairs where

    Jan 1, 1924

  • RMCMI
    Discussion Of Mr. Stroup's Paper

    PRESIDENT PRYDE: I think that the overcutting machine undoubtedly presents a great many benefits, especially where the roof is frail. I have found a good substitute for the Arcwall, getting a lighter

    Jan 1, 1924

  • CIM
    The Railway's Part In Coal Mining

    By D. W. McDonald

    Coal mining and railway transportation are so closely en-twined and so dependent one upon the other that the failure of one would mean the total collapse of the other. With this indisputable fact in m

    Jan 1, 1924

  • AUSIMM
    Investigations on Lead Roasting at the Sulphide Corporation's Works at Cockle Creek, N.S.W.

    THE paper is principally eoncerncd with experimental work carried out the author whilst a number of the metallurgical staff at the Cockle Creek works. The metallurgical has been discussed sufficiently

    Jan 1, 1924

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 190 COAL-MINING PROBLEMS IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

    By George Watkin Evans

    The United States Geological Survey has estimated 1 that the State of Washington contains 11,412,000,000 tons of bituminous coal and 52,442,000,000 tons of subbituminous coal, in beds more than 14 inc

    Jan 1, 1924

  • NIOSH
    RI 2496 Platinum Assays and Platinum Promotions

    By C. W. Davis, M. W. Von Bernewitz, S. C. Lind

    During the past few years our possible domestic resources of platinum have attracted much attention . On account of the extensive use of platinum during the World War , and the practical elimination o

    Jun 1, 1923

  • NIOSH
    RI 2497 Gases Liberated by High-Voltage Insulator Testing Apparatus

    By W. P. Yant, G. W. Jones

    During the testing of porcelain insulators with a " 60 - cycle flash - over apparatus " , gases are liberated having an odor greatly resembling that of ozone . Since the two main constituents of norma

    Jun 1, 1923

  • NIOSH
    RI 2455 How Steam-Production Costs Were Reduced in a Hand-Fired Return Tubular Boiler

    By A. R. Mumford

    During the course of an investigation conducted by the fuel section of the Bureau of Mines , on a hand- fired return- tubular boiler plant , it was found that the average cost of fuel to produce 1,000

    Mar 1, 1923

  • AIME
    Reminiscences of the Old Pueblo Smelter

    By E. P. Mathewson

    THE OLD Pueblo smelter is being dismantled after 43 years of continuous operation, from 1878 to 1921. It was built by Mather and Geist, on a bluff overlooking the Arkansas River just below the, city o

    Jan 11, 1923

  • AIME
    Federal Coal Commission's Report on Anthracite

    EDITORIAL comments on the anthracite report of the Federal Fact-finding Coal Commission, which became public on July 5, together with an analysis of its more important conclusions, will be found on

    Jan 8, 1923

  • AIME
    Employee Representation at the Bethlehem Steel Co.

    By J. M. Larkin

    GOOD will is becoming recognized more and more as a necessary business asset, and a successful concern must have the good will not only of its customers and the public, but of its employees. Managemen

    Jan 2, 1923

  • AIME
    Institute Reports for the Year 1925

    TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL ENGINEERS Gentlemen -The Institute was founded 54 years ago "with the object of promoting the arts and sciences conn

    Jan 1, 1923

  • CIM
    Publicity and the Mining Industry

    By C. M. Campbell

    Canadian newspapers from coast to coast, have been, for months, denouncing those articles entitled, "The Whisper of Death," which have been appearing in the Montreal Star. I have not read these articl

    Jan 1, 1923

  • CIM
    A Standardized Method For Air-Drying Coal

    By E. Stansfield

    Coal samples are sometimes taken from a wet spot in a mine, or from an open car or pile shortly after rain, and submitted for analysis in a dripping wet condition. Other samples are taken from a dry s

    Jan 1, 1923

  • AIME
    Institute Reports for Year 1924

    OFFICIAL INSTITUTE REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1924 Report of the Secretary TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL ENGINEERS Gentlemen -To a Board of Directors kee

    Jan 1, 1923

  • NIOSH
    The Electrothermic Metallurgy Of Zinc. - Introduction.

    By B. M. Harra, O&apos

    Zinc smelting is frequently termed a backward art. The term is hardly true, for great progress has been made in recent years in the design and in the thermal efficiency of the retort furnace, in the q

    Jan 1, 1923