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Ore Dressing Laboratory For The Missouri School Of Mines And Metallurgy, Rolla, Missouri: Design, Description, Drawings For Erection, Bills Of Material, And Specifications, Boyd Dudley Jr.

Masters Theses

"The work of preparing suitable drawings and specifications for the construction of the new Ore Dressing Laboratory of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy was begun about August 15, 1909. At that time general plans, as shown in drawings No. 1 and No. 2, were drawn up and submitted for approvaleaf With certain minor alterations, to be mentioned under the section on specifications, these plans will be followed in the installation of machinery. Other detail drawings were made by the class in Ore Dressing Problems under the direction of the writer during the school term ending March 12, 1910. …

Design Of 300 Ton Cyanide Tailings Plant And Operation Of Same, Lamar Horacio Hunt

Masters Theses

"The plant in question was designed by the writer, to treat the immense tailings dumps of the Sacramento Gold Mining company at Mercur, Utah, consisting of one-half million tons of old cyanide tailings. The ore is porous and friable, causing much slime, which is impermeable to cyanide solution, by the old leaching system. Slime has always been troublesome, and the above plant was designed to overcome this difficulty"--page [1].

A Method Of Obtaining Lead Concentrates From The Slimes Of The St. Joseph Lead Mill, Lewis Alfred Delano

Professional Degree Theses

"In the concentrating of lead ores, the water used in the mills carries the tailings from the jigs and tables to chatt tanks. Here the chatts and sands settle while the greater part of the water overflows and enters a sluice or slimes branch to the settling ponds. This overflow water carries with it a great deal of float lead. It is impossible to catch this lead in the mill on moving machinery without using too much power and mill space to effect a profitable saving. Ninety percent of this float will pass through a 140 mesh sieve. there will …

Economic Investigation Of The Lignites Of The Dickinson, N.D. Area, Glenn Beckley Morgan

Professional Degree Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relation Of The Composition Of A Mineral To Its Properties, Edwin Phelps Murray

Professional Degree Theses

"The attempt has been made to bring together and to classify the properties of minerals and to show that there is some simple qualitative relation between their composition and physical properties, or in other words, to show that minerals containing different percentages of a certain element will all have similar properties dependent upon the proportion of that element. Further investigation of this subject would be in determining the modifying influence of crystal form"--page 1.

Design And Details Of Elevated Steel Tank, William A. Baueris

Bachelors Theses

"An effort has been made in this work to furnish complete plans and specifications for a steel structure which could replace the concrete reservoir on natural elevation north of Rolla, attention being given to capacity and relative elevations. A comparison of these two structures regarding relative advantages and disadvantages is herein given, with the intention of providing some foundation as a source of choice between these two classes of structures"--page 2.

The Design Of A Dam And The Investigation Of A Water Supply For The City Of Rolla, Missouri, Frank Xavier Nachtman, Ernst Lorenze Chamberlain

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this paper is to investigate a means of supplying the City of Rolla with better water at a reasonable a price as possible. The elevation and distance of the supply from the city were very important factors,also the most economical position for the dam was to be considered. After examining several drainage basins with the above purposes in mind we selected one just west of the City on account of its convenience and high elevation. The watershed includes an area of ever eight hundred acres and is divided into two parts which come together in a narrow …

The Construction Of The United States Macadam Road At Fort Scott, Kansas, William Mcelroy

Bachelors Theses

No abstract provided.

Design Of Reinforced Concrete Water Tower And Tank, Harvey Oden Garst, Pearl Frederick Michael

Bachelors Theses

"Theoretically the most economical dimension for a flat bottomed cylindrical tank would be such that the height of the tank is equal to the diameter, but such a tank does not look as well as one which has the height a little greater than the diameter and as the cost will be affected but little by making the height a few feet greater than the diameter, the most economical design will not be strictly carried out in this particular"--Data, page 1.

The Cyanidation Of High Grade Gold And Silver Concentrate, Reginald Henry Brinton Butler, John Warren Beard

Bachelors Theses

"The cyanidation of high grade gold and silver concentrate is a subject that has lately been attracting the attention of metallurgists in different parts of the world, and offers an interesting field for investigation and research. The inducements are especially strong in districts at log distances from the smelter, and where high freight rates and excessive treatment charges obtain"--page 1.

A Study Of The Settlement Of Slimes, William Simpson Hall, James Crawford Compton

Bachelors Theses

"The purpose of this thesis, as originally planned, was to determine the effect produced by certain substances called electrolytes upon the mill product known as "slimes". The subject presented an ever increasing number of new problems as it progressed and some work along the line of several of these branches is embodied in the following pages. Reports of investigation and behavior of slimes when treated for quick settlement are few and unsatisfactory. Our results may prove nothing already unknown, but the fact that so little data is easily accesible sic has been the motive for this thesis"--Preface, page 1.

Timbering In The Warren District, Cochise Co., Arizona, Fred Tete Boyer

Bachelors Theses

No abstract provided.

Geology Along The St. Louis And San Francisco Railroad From Rolla To Newburg, Victor H. Hughes

Bachelors Theses

"The area, the geology of which, constitutes the subject of this Thesis, lies between the towns of Rolla and Newburgh sic , in Phelps Co., Missouri, and is contiguous to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad for its entire distance"--Text of Thesis, page 1.

Radiation Losses In Metallurgical Furnaces, Frank Richard Loveridge

Bachelors Theses

"The conduction and radiation of heat are of great importance in metallurgy. Metallurgical operations require, in the great majority of cases, temperatures above those of normal atmospheric conditions. Loss of heat is loss of dollars. Furnaces of all kinds allow to pass their walls a greater or less amount of heat, i.e. heat is lost by conduction and by radiation. This heat is often spoken of as radiation loss. It is due to the heat being conducted from the inside to the outside of the furnace. The materials of construction, and manner of building the furnace has much to do …

A Comparison Of The Solvents Used In The Hydrometallurgy Of Silver, Simon Jochamowitz, Enrique Cavazos

Bachelors Theses

"Potassium cyanide solutions, hyposulphite of soda solutions, and a mixture called the Russell solution, are the solvents most used to win silver from its ores. We are not the first to attempt comparisons of the solvent powers of the different solutions named. It is difficult, at least we have found it difficult, to find tabulated, a comparison of the various solvents from the points of view of speed of action, of consumption of reagents, of suitability of one or another to a given type of ore"--page 1.

The Volatilization And Absorption Of Silver Chloride, Edgar Joseph Wolf, Victoriano Elicano

Bachelors Theses

"The purpose of this thesis was to study the relation of the loss of silver chloride to such variables as the temperature, as the type of gangue, as the method of carrying on the roast; to determine what becomes of the silver lost and to attempt to recover it. In our work we consider something seemingly overlooked by many, if not all of the workers; namely, that there is a great loss of silver chloride due to absorption, as well as to volatilization. Volatilization has been the hobby of most of the experimeters. We hope to show as a part …

A Study Of The Losses Of Gold During Cupellation In The Presence Of Tellurium, George Albert Easley, Carl Winthrop Keniston

Bachelors Theses

"It is generally accepted that the presence, in the lead button, of a small amount of tellurium causes, during cupellation, a loss of gold. Little, however, is known as to the loss, when tellurium is present, due to variation in the temperature of cupellation...Our work was carried on with the intention of determining the loss of gold, due to temperature in the presence of known amount of tellurium and to compare this loss with that caused by the temperature alone. Has temperature the same, a greater, or a less effect on the loss of gold during cupellation when tellurium is …

The Microstructure Of Drill Steel, Arthur L. Pollard

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this thesis was to determine the microstructure of the various grades of steel used in rock drilling and to obtain if possible some general relation between the structure, composition, and hardening temperature. About 35 of the best known grades of tool steel having a carbon content of about 1 per cent or containing an equivalent hardening agent"--page 2.

Minerals And Their Environment Of Formation, Deforrest Don

Bachelors Theses

"The history of mineralogy began with the development of mining and the use of certain minerals as useful products, such as lime, pigments and precious stones. In order to know how to distinguish these minerals when found and where they were likely to found, it was necessary to study the nature, properties and the modes of occurrence. In order to determine all these properties, it was necessary to classify and compare them with the purpose of ascertaining how they resemble each other, and how they differ"--page 1.

Investigation Of Hindered Settling Ratio Of Galena, Sphalerite And Pyrite As Compared To Quartz In Air, Ralph Wilheim Watson, William Danels Clarke

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this thesis is to determine the hindered settling ratios in air, of Galena, of Pyrite, and of Sphalerite as compared to Quartz"--Problem, page 1.

Steinmesch Hindered Settling Classifier, Jesse Herman Steinmesch

Professional Degree Theses

"The construction of the single classifier is well shown in the attached blueprint.

On the print it will be noted that the classifier is divided into two general parts, an upper hopper-shaped chamber GFED, and a lower portion consisting of the flat tube C, encased by the chamber A. Between upper and lower portions is the gasket L which serves to make a close joint between them, and also by forcing C downward, to make tight joints between A and C at both top and bottom. L is made of 1 ½” board. At D is a plate of #12 …

General Method Of Procedure In The Working Out Of The Uncompahgre Valley Project, Colorado, Leo J. Foster

Masters Theses

"On the 17th of June 1902, Congress passed an act which may have appeared of little moment at that time, but which is not attracting the attention of the people of the United States. It is known on the Statute Books as the Reclamation Act and its purpose is to provide a Reclamation Fund, the said fund being used only to examine and construct Irrigation Works in certain Western States and Territories. This Act provides that the proceeds of the sale of public lands in thirteen States and three Territories, known as the Public Land States, less a deduction of …

The History And The Development Of The Cyanide Industry, Horace T. Mann

Masters Theses

"The accompanying thesis is a compilation from articles published n the magazines and from books. Where no references are given, the statements are the impressions gained from reading several articles on the same subject. None of the work originated with myself"--page [ii].

Copper Smelting In A Rotary Furnace With Pulverized Charcoal, Elmer Cooper Heck

Professional Degree Theses

"This process is in use at the Verde Grande Copper Company's plant, located thirty-two miles north west of Hermosillo in the state of Sonora, Republic of Mexico, and is yet experimental"--page 1.

Square Set System Of Timbering As Employed By The Shannon Copper Co., Ray Eugene Hoffman

Professional Degree Theses

"The properties of The Shannon Copper Co., consisting of mine and smelter, are located in the Southeastern part of Arizona in what is known as the Clifton-Morenci District. The smelter is located at Clifton and the mine at Metcalf, eight miles distant on an iron capped mountain known as Serro Preito.

From a geological standpoint the ore deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District are a freak. There are no fissure veins of any consequence in the district; all the large deposits are found in bodies, the ore usually occurring in a soft porphyry.

Underlying the iron capping on the Shannon property …

Report Of La Mina Boquillas Del Carmen, Of Coahuila, Mexico, James Asa Gregory

Professional Degree Theses

"The several denouncements embracing the group known as the Boquillas Del Carmen Mines are located in the western foothills of the Boquillas del Carmen range, and about eight miles in an air line, east of the small town of Boquillas, just across the Rio Grande River and in the state of Coahuila, Mexico"--page 1.

Tests Of Efficiency Of The Rolla Power Plant, Ward Barr Mix, Edwin Bryant Thornhill, George Fred Kellogg, Clyde Rex Wood

Bachelors Theses

"The object of the test was to determine the efficiency of the separate units and of the plant as a whole under actual normal working conditions"--Object, page 1.

Effect Of Arsenic On Assay For Gold And Silver, Rosco Conkling Ham, Frederick Arnold Moore

Bachelors Theses

"In presenting the within thesis, it is not claimed by the authors that the experiments have been, by any means, exhaustive of the subject. Neither is any claim made to original research work other than a series of simple experiments with a view to determining, if possible, some of the more important effects of Arsenic upon a fire assay for gold and silver as met with in the ordinary assay laboratory. To make a work complete and exhaustive on such a subject will require much more time and more complete apparatus than was available in the experiments covered by this …

Design Of A Re-Inforced Arch Over Frisco Railroad On Tenth Street, Rolla, Missouri, Don Morgan Neer

Bachelors Theses

"Location. This bridge shall be located so that its center line will coincide with the center line of Tenth Street, so that the two (2) inside faces of the abutments will be perpendicular to the center line of Tenth Street and will be fifty-one (51) feet from the center line of the main track of the Frisco Railroad. General Description. This bridge will be built of concrete with steel rod re-inforcement, as shown on the plan. It will be one hundred two (102) feet between the faces of the abutments. The abutments shall be carried down into the rock ledge …

A Report On The Shattuck And Arizona Mine At Bisbee, Arizona, John Joseph Sanford

Bachelors Theses

"The Shattuck and Arizona Mine is about one-half mile southwest of the town of Bisbee and five-sixteenths of a mile west of the Holbrook shaft of the Copper Queen property. The mine is on the east slope of Escanbrosa Ridge and a quarter of a mile up Uncle Sam Gulch. It adjoins the Uncle Sam Mine on the north and the Cuprite, a Copper Queen property, on the east"--Location, page 1.