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A New Copper District In Southern Arizona, Harry Carleton Chamberlain

Professional Degree Theses

"Within the last two or three years, the copper mining industry has been growing at a remarkable rate. Perhaps not so much in the output of refined copper as in the exploitation and development of new fields. The panic of 1907 left its mark only too deep on many of the then producing mines. the inflated price of copper has aroused interest in those who owned or controlled small or undeveloped mines ... One of these districts is the one to be treated of in this report. It is not a new discovery, but rather one of the oldest camps …

The Losses Of Gold During Cupellation Using Various Makes Of Cupels, Benjamin Harrison Dosenbach

Bachelors Theses

"There are on the market various cupels. Many of the assay-supply firms sell a "manufactured" cupel, presumably made of bone-ash. The great majority of all cupels used, are made of bone-ash in the assay office itself. The object of this work is to compare the losses of gold when the various patented, the various manufactured and the ordinary hand made cupels are used"--page 1.

Investigation Of Hindered-Settling Ratio Of Galena And Quartz In Air, John Sloan Stewart, Ralph Daniel Killian

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this Thesis is to determine the hindred sic -settling ratio in air of Galena and Quartz, and to verify if possible the result of the work done in 1909 by W. D. Clark and R. W. Watson"--Problem, page 1.

Notes On The Precipitation Of Gold From Cyanide Solution, Charles Adrian Burdick, Harry Wade Connelly

Bachelors Theses

"This work was to determine the Potassium Cyanide and the Zinc consumed in the precipitation of Gold from cyanide solutions by zinc dust"--page 1.

The Effects Of Co₂, So₂, And Temperatures On Blende Roasting, Monroe Farrar

Bachelors Theses

"This work deals with the effect which different temperatures and different percentages of CO₂ and SO₂ have on the speed of roasting of zinc sulphide. I selected sphalerite from the Joplin district"--Page 1.

Transportation Of Chert In Launders, Louis Joseph Porri, John Lyle Pickering

Bachelors Theses

"Water is often carried from place to place in artificial channels, such as troughs, aqueducts, ditches and canals. A launder is, specifically speaking, a trough, and it is with this that this article will treat. It is the purpose of this investigation to discover, if possible, first, the maximum carrying power of water when transporting chert; second, to find the relation existing between the velocities of different sized chert"--Introduction, page 1.

Geology In The Vicinity Of Palmer, Mo., Alfred Nicks Detweiler, John Kavanaugh Forman

Bachelors Theses

"This area has been of minor importance in the production of ore on a commercial scale, the ore mined being residual in clay in openings occuring sic in dolomite and with chert, all near the surface, the mining being done by individuals who felt disposed to sink a shaft on some supposedly mineralized spot in the hope of uncovering a few tons or ore. Mining operations have been carried on intermittently for more than a century, so we are told, the early miners breaking the rock by first heating it with a wood fire, and then suddenly cooling it with …

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].

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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

Bachelors Theses

No abstract provided.

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.

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 …

Test Made On The Missouri School Of Mines Power Plant, Leland R. Walker, George Hewitt Boyer, Alfred Leo Nye

Bachelors Theses

"The primary object of this thesis was to obtain the total efficiency of the Missouri School of Mines Power Plant"--page 1.

Pot Roasting Of Lead Ores, Ralph Robert Benedict, Edward Phillip Barrett, Frank William Harper

Bachelors Theses

"In this thesis for a starting point, we attempted a roast of straight galena with no diluent. As anticipated the results were nil. We next attempted the roast with a mixture of galena and silica, and obtained fair results. Our next experiment was to use limestone with the galena. Because of the large percentage of limestone present the results were not satisfactory. Next pyrites and limestone were used with the galena, and excellent results were obtained. We made another run, using pyrites and limestone, but increasing the per-centage of galena by 25%. This run was also very successful. From these …

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.

Mining And Milling Of A Low Grade Copper Ore, Richard Edward Armstrong, Horace Asahel Johnson

Bachelors Theses

No abstract provided.

The Development Of A Lead, Zinc Prospect, Felix Anthony Lyneman

Bachelors Theses

"The writer's object in this thesis is to devise a method of mining the ores from a well-known Chitwood Prospect, Jasper Co., Mo., so that the same will pay dividends"--Object, page 1.