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  • NIOSH
    RI 4033 Use of Scrapers and Other Light Earth-Moving Equipment in Bitnminous-Coal Strip Mining

    By Albert L. Toenges, Louis A. Turnbull, EDWARD L. FISH, JOSEPH J. SHIELDS, James J. Dowd

    The stripping of coal with mechanical. equipment has progressed since the introduction of the first steam-powered shovel for the retóval of overburden at a mine in Pittsburg, Kans., in 1877...From the

    Jan 1, 1947

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    RI 4003 Magnetic Surveys, Redford-Clayburg Magnetite District, Saranac and Black Brook, Clinton County, N. Y

    By John D. Bardill

    This report covers the magnetic survey in the Redford-Clayburg area , which was part of a general survey of magnetite deposits in New York started in 1943 . Other areas being surveyed include the Star

    Jan 1, 1947

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    RI 4058 Churrn-Drill Performance

    By E. J. Lintner, J. R. Thoenen

    During the period 1937-40 and until peacetime research was superseded in 1941 by wartime activities , the junior author was engaged in studies regarding the relative efficiency of operating methods in

    Jan 1, 1947

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    RI 3910 Supplement to Active List of Permissible Explosives and Blasting Devices Approved Previous to December 31, 1945

    By J. E. Tiffany, Z. C. Gaugler

    This supplement has been prepared to furnish information on amendments to the regulations that were approved by acting secretary of the Interior on June 24, 1946, while this report was in the press. P

    Jan 1, 1947

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    RI 3979 Exploration - Southern Cross Iron Deposits, Deer Lodge, MT

    By N. L. Wimmler

    "INTRODUCTION The Southern Cross district in Deer Lodge County, Mont., has been chiefly a gold producer. Most of the production has come from gold-bearing hematite-limonite ores. Some of these ores we

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 3949 Exploration of the Gold, Silver, Lead, and Zinc Properties, Eureka Corporation Eureka County, Nevada

    By E. O. Binyone

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    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 4019 Secondary-Recovery Practices and Oil Reserves in the Eastern Part of the Delaware-Childers Field, Nowata County, Okla.

    By C. H. Riggs, Kenneth H. Johnston

    The application of modern secondary-recovery methods has made possible the the extraction of more than 13 million barrels of crude petroleum from the eastern part of the Delaware-Childers field Nowata

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 3978 Exploration of Cape Mountain Lode-Tin Deposits Seward Peninsula, Alaska

    By Wilford S. Wright, Harold E. Heide, Robert S. Sanford

    "INTRODUCTION The United States production of tin has always been negligible, and domestic requirements have been met almost entirely by imports. The advent of war in Europe in 1939 brought a threat t

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 3994 Pilot-Plant Investigations Production of Sponge Iron with Producer Gas

    By R. G. Knickerbocker, T. E. Evans, D. R. Torgeson

    "INTRODUCTION Sponge iron is a product resulting from the reduction of an iron oxide at such a low temperature that fusion does not occur, and the reduced particles retain substantially the same shape

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 3982 Exploration of New Planet Iron Deposit Yuma County. Ariz.

    By Joseph B. Cummings

    "INTRODUCTION The property was first examined by an engineer 3/ of the Bureau of lanes in December 1942 and was later investigated by the sane engineer in January and February 1943. Prominent outcrops

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 3986 Exploration of Harding Tantalum-Lithium Deposits Taos County, New Mexico

    By John H. Soulé

    "INTRODUCTION Spodumene and lepidolite were shipped from the Harding pegmatite deposit, Taos County, N. Mex., in the period from 1930 to 1930. Tantalum minerals were noted as early as 1924 and describ

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 4063 National Motor-Gasoline Surveys, Summer 1946

    By O. C. Blade

    "INTRODUCTION This report on the properties of motor fuels sold through service stations in the United States is a continuation of a series of reports made in accordance with a cooperative agreement b

    Dec 1, 1946

  • NIOSH
    RI 4060 Sulfur in Petroleum II. Boiling Points, Freezing Points, Densities, and Refractive Indices of Some Sulfur Compounds

    By Vernon Helm, John S. Ball, Welton J. Wenger, William E. Haines

    "INTRODUCTION Although the presence of sulfur causes many petroleum’s to be classified as ""low-grade"" because of the difficulties encountered in manufacturing products to meet rigid specifications,

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 3981 Exploration of Choteau Titaniferous Magnetite Deposit,Teton County, Montana

    By N. L. Wimmler

    "INRODUCTIONSedimentary deposits of titaniferrous magnetite occur at various localities in the eastern foothills of the Teton Ranse in Deer Lodge County, Mont. The Choteau deposit was examined by a Bu

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 3980 Pilot-Plant Production of High-Grade Magnetite Concentrates, Cranberry, N.C.

    By Frank D. Lamb, D. A. Woodard

    "INTRODUCTION The iron-ore deposits near Cranberry, N. C., were worked as early as 1820, and records show that to date at least 1,500,000 tons of ore has been mined.. The early operators depended on s

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 4004 A Method for Determining Simultaneously the Oil and Water Saturations of Oil Sands

    By Cleo Griffith Rall, D. B. Taliaferro

    The method for determining oil and water saturations described herein has been used successfully for several years in the core laboratories of the Bureau of Mines. The apparatus constructed according

    Dec 1, 1946

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    RI 4034 Properties of Louisiana Crude Oils, Pt. 3

    By O. C. Blade, E. L. Garton

    Louisiana is one of the major oil-producing States of the country. Commercial production of crude oil in the State began in 1902 and has increased to an estimated output of 157,409,000 barrels in 1945

    Dec 1, 1946

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    IC 7393 Diamond-Drilling Blast Holes, Eastern Magnetite Mine A

    By McHenry Mosier

    This paper describes the practice in diamond drilling blast holes and discusses the relative merits of this method as compared with drilling by percussion rock-drills at eastern magnetite mine A. The

    Dec 1, 1946

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    IC 7390 Description of the Eickhoff-Schriimlader Longwall Coal-Cutting and Loading Machine

    By EINAR M. ARENTZEN

    This information circular. deais primarily with an engineering descrip- tion of a type of longwall cutting and loading machine developed by Eick- hoff Maschinenfabrik, Bochum, Germany..: This machine

    Dec 1, 1946

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    IC 7391 Determination of the Size of Submicroscopic Particles by X-Rays, by A. Guinier, translated from the Jour. Chim. Phys

    By STUART R. BRINKLEY, Ruth F. Brinkley

    This same phonomonon of diffraction may be transposed into the X-ray domain. All that is necessary is to reduco, in the samo proportion, the wavo length of the light and the diameter of the particlo;

    Dec 1, 1946