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Mining Methods And Geology Of The Boston Consolidated Mine At Bingham, Utah, James Leonidas Boucher

Bachelors Theses

"This thesis does not so much attempt a detailed report on the geology of the disseminates ores of Bingham Canyon as a more particular description of the underground methods of mining these ores as well as studies in drilling, sampling, etc. Steam shovel mining was studied to some extent but almost all the data for the following pages has been derived from the Boston Consolidated Underground Mine and the Old Utah Mine. The Boston consolidated, especially, has been studied for this mine is the largest and, at late date, was the only underground porphyry mine working, the Old Utah having …

The Determination Of Oils In Limestone, Claude Calvin Cushwa

Bachelors Theses

"The purpose of this work has been to establish the occurrence or the non-occurrence of petroleum in certain limestones. The results of this work, if oil were proved to exist, would have a direct bearing on the theories of the origin of oils"--Introduction, page 1.

A Comparison Of Crushing Machines, Clyde Willis Hall, Walter Henry Wager

Bachelors Theses

"Much has been written on the comparative efficiency of the various sorts of crushing machines used in the art of Ore Dressing, but it must be confessed that the subject has by no means been reduced to one of the exact sciences as yet. This is rather a sad condition of affairs, for as is of course apparent to the most casual observer, the whole fabric of ore dressing rests and depends to a large degree on the efficiency and economy of the crushing machinery. Inefficient crushing means high costs, irrespective of the thoroughness and cheapness with which the ensuing …

Comparative Tests Of Rock Drill Bits For Piston Machines, Thomas C. Robson, Miguel Leon Cepeda

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this thesis is to find out the relative cutting qualities of different kinds of rock drill bits. The bits tested were: the regular cross bit, the Z bit of the Southeast Missouri type and the bull bit of the Joplin type. All these bits were made on a No. 5 Leyner sharpener and were tempered as nearly alike as possible. All conditions were kept as nearly uniform as possible during the various tests; air pressure, length of stroke, size of bit, etc., the only variables entering being the difference in bits and personal equation of operators"--Introduction, page …

Tests Of Rock Drill Bits For Water-Leyner Machine, Riley Marsh Simrall, Edmond Otis Stoliker

Bachelors Theses

"The above investigation was made in the Mining Laboratory of the Missouri School of Mines, under the direction of Prof. C. R. Forbes, with the following object in view: To make comparative tests of various types of regular and special bits for the Water-Leyner machine as to drilling speed and total distance drilled by each bit without resharpening"--Introduction, page 2.

Investigation With Rock Drills, Tirso CastillóN

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this thesis is to investigate the different shapes of bits in rock drilling. My intention at first was to run more extensive tests on bits, but due to the large amount of work necessary in rigging up the apparatus, and the maintainence sic of same, I found it necessary to reduce my work to two bits, which I name Flat and Regular, the Flat Bit being an invention of Professor C. R. Forbes, and the Regular Bit being the common one used by the Leyner Company"--page 2.

Leaching Copper Tailings, Howard Gove Halsey, Frederick Gallaway Moses

Bachelors Theses

"There are, scattered throughout the country, enormous amounts of rock that, by the discovery of a quick, cheap, and practiable sic method of extracting their metallic content could be turned into valuable ores. This has already been accomplished for gold and silver by the adaption of the cyanide method to their treatment. The next in order, both because of the value of the metal and the amount of material available in mill dumps and in the ground, is copper. there are dumps containing millions of tons of this material lying idle because of the fact that with the present methods …

Methods Of Prospecting And Estimating Ore Bodies Of The Wisconsin Zinc And Lead District, Guy Henry Cox

Professional Degree Theses

"The stratigraphy and structure of the Wisconsin Zinc and Lead District are remarkably simple; so simple in fact that one is liable to under estimate their importance in relation to the ore deposits. But four formations are of interest to one operating in this district, all of which are Ordovician in age and which in ascending order are, - the St. Peter sandstone, the Platteville limestone, the Galena dolomite, and the Maquoketa shale"--Geology - Stratigraphy - General, page 1.

Bituminous Coal Mining In Northern Missouri, True Walter Blake

Professional Degree Theses

"Missouri was the first state west of the Mississippi to produce a commercial output of coal and, although in later years some of the western states have produced a larger yield, still the Missouri mines bid air to hold their present standing as there are hundreds of acres of virgin coal land in this state that will be able to be worked profitably after the eastern coal operators have worked out their thicker veins of coal. The coal is won from the grasp of Mother Earth by either room-and-pillar or longwall systems in the larger mines, each method being employed …

Amalgamation And Refining Of High Grade Silver Ores Containing Arsenic And Antimony, Edwin Bryant Thornhill, Robert Emmett Dye

Professional Degree Theses

"The advantage of shipping refined silver bullion over the shipment of concentrate to a smelter has been apparent to mine operators in this district for years but not ill recently was the project undertaken by the Buffalo Mine Limited, Cobalt, Ont., Canada. Early in 1912 experiments were conducted by H. G. S. Anderson with this end in view. The results of these experiments led to the erection of an amalgamation plant, the design and construction of which was carried out by Mr. Anderson...It is not the hope in this paper to set forth facts that are entirely new as similar …

Report On Bellshazar Mining Property, Matthew Vincent Quinn

Professional Degree Theses

"The property of the Belshazzar Gold Mine is located in the Granite Creek Mining District of Boise County, State of Idaho. This district forms the northern boundary of the famous Boise Basin which has produced over two hundred million in placer gold. The Balshazzar property is about three and a half miles from the town of Quartzburg and about four miles from the town of Placerville. A good wagon road connects the property with both towns"--Description of the District, page 3.

Design Of A 250 Ton Mill, For Cyanidation Of A Cobalt Silver Ore, Carlos Enrique Elmore Y Guerra

Professional Degree Theses

"My aim in the designing of this 250-Ton Mill for cyanidation of a Cobalt Silver Ore, has been to select the simplest process of extraction in connection with the Labratory [sic] Experiments which showed the highest per cent of extraction. Care has been taken in the selection of the machinery, and the location of it in the Mill is such, that if a greater capacity is required, that could be done without interfering with the machines in the Mill in question"--Introduction, page 1.

Investigation Of Rock Drill Bits, George Elmer Abernathy

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this thesis is an attempt to determine the relative efficiency of rock drill bits.

The bits compared were the ordinary double chisel bit, sharpened with a Leyner drill sharpener, and the same bit after it had been filed so that the point was not sharp, but a flat surface 3/32 of an inch wide at the outside, diameter of the bit and tapering to a point at the center of the bit"--page 1.

The Development Of Mine Number One Of The Chinook Coal Company, Limited, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Theodore Saunders Dunn

Bachelors Theses

"The Lethbridge Mining District lies about 50 miles north of the International Boundary and approximately 280 miles north of Great Falls, Montana. The country is rolling prairie with deeply cut river vallies sic and is practically treeless except for a few willows along the river bottoms. The rainfall is moderate but the climate is severe; the summers being short and hot while temperatures of -50 degrees F. are not uncommon during the long winters. On account of the severe winters and the scarcity of timber there is a good market for coal during the entire year as it is the …

Test Of The Municipal Power Plant Of The City Of Rolla, Missouri, Dexter Eli Andrus, Leonard Stephen Copelin, Harry Hackett Nowlan

Bachelors Theses

"The object of the test was to determine the efficiency of the boilers and engines under the actual conditions of every day operation"--Object of the Test, page 3.

Flotation Applied To Joplin Sludge, Thaddeus C. Wilson, Gustaf Axel Hellstrand

Bachelors Theses

"The sludge (fine material) which daily is being sent to the tailing dump by the Joplin mills contains values in lead and zinc often in excess, as to percentage, of that of the crude ore. At present no attempt is being made to treat this It is at this point that it is proposed to introduce some flotation process to supplement the ordinary scheme of wet concentration. With this end in view we have conducted a series of experiments in the flotation of a Joplin sludge"--page 2-3.

Methods Of Mining And The Preparation Of Coal In The Belleville, Illinois District, Harry William Shaw

Bachelors Theses

"The methods of mining and the preparation of coal for the market in the Belleville District represent the most modern and up-to-date methods in the state of Illinois. Mine No. 17 of the Consolidated Coal Company is the largest in the district and the methods used here are typical of the entire district"--page 6.

Relation Of Carbon Dioxide In Flue Gases To The Efficiency Of A Boiler, Richard A. Wagstaff, Philip A. Moore, William Ehlers, James Hopkins

Bachelors Theses

"This thesis was undertaken to demonstrate the practical utility of measuring the efficiency of a Heine Boiler, installed in the Power Plant at the Missouri School of Mines, by the amount of CO₂ in the flue gases. The tests were made on a new boiler which had recently been installed in the Power Plant. The boiler and setting being new, the tests should show a high percentage of CO₂ in the flue gases and a high evaporative efficiency by the boiler"--page 3.

Coal Washing, Mark S. Sheffer, Thomas Andrew Stroup

Bachelors Theses

"The rapid growth of the coal washing industry in the United States during the past few years is characteristic of the general tendency toward more economical and efficient utilization of the natural resources, the washing of coal being a process of enrichment of one of the most necessary and widely used raw products. This industry is of great importance to the men engaged in mining of coal as well as to the community at large, and since it makes possible the use of originally poor coals, it conserves one of the natural resources absolutely essential for the progress of the …

The Measurement Of Compressed Air And Its Consumption In Rock Drills, Homer Kent Sherry, William Porri

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this thesis is to investigate the measurement of compressed air and to determine its consumption in rock drills. Our intention at first was to run more exhaustive tests on the drills, but due to the large amount of work necessary in rigging up the apparatus and computing results, we found it necessary to curtail our work to representative types of the hammer and the piston machines. We regret being unable to give more complete data in regard to the drills, but hope to point out fields for future work since, with the increased facilities now at hand, …

Statement Of Mining Costs In The Butte District Three Months Ending June First 1910, Clifford Leroy Conway, George Sylvester Thomas, George Francis Condon

Bachelors Theses

"The following cost data were compiled from the monthly cost sheets of the several mines, through a period of three months, April, May and June 1910. These figures were obtained from the cost sheets of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and are exact in every instance. The scale of wages and the cost of supplies which prevailed during the period that these figures were created were as follows"--page 3.

Roasting Pyrite For Magnetism With Minimum Sulphur Volatilization, Dale Irwin Hayes, Clark Watson Wright

Bachelors Theses

"In Wisconsin and other zinc mining districts the blende is frequently found associated with pyrite and marcasite. In the Wisconsin district, especially, the marcasite content of the mine-run ore is high being frequently equal to and in many cases greater than the sphalerite content. At time the marcasite and sphalerite together constitute as much as 25 or 30% of the min-run ore. The characteristic milling treatment of this ore is; first, hand-picking, and then over grizzlies, tromells, rougher and cleaner jigs. Owing to the fact that marcasite and sphalerite differ but slightly in specific gravity the jig concentrate obtained is …

Geology Of Beaver Quadrangle, Robert Justice Paulette, James Lawton Keelyn

Bachelors Theses

No abstract provided.

Fire Clays Of Phelps County, Arthur Harrison Cronk

Bachelors Theses

No abstract provided.

Testing Explosives, Frank James Flynn, Miller Edward Willmott

Bachelors Theses

"The following tests and experiments were carried on to determine: first, the utility of a certain well known method of making comparative tests of explosives and second; to show some of the conditions that influence the force and effect of a blast, such as the size of detonator, the use of tamping, the size of bore hole, and the size and number of free faces exposed to the blast"--Introduction, page 1.

Efficiency Of The Missouri School Of Mines Power Plant And Cost Of Operation, Cairy C. Conover, John Richardson Kenney, Louie Lincoln Coover

Bachelors Theses

"These tests were made for the purpose of getting the efficiency of the electric power plant as it was being run and the cost of operating it. Tests were first made on the boilers separately. The load at the time of the test was too heavy for one boiler and too light for tow, part of the steam being used for heating the buildings and for the air-compressor. This made it so that no combined test of the boilers and generating couple could be made until the warm weather came and the laboratories using compressed air were closed, which was …

Efficiency Of The Missouri School Of Mines Power Plant, Eugene Harding Broughton, William Henry Elbelt

Bachelors Theses

"The test was made for the purpose of determining the efficiency of the power plant as it is being run"--page 3.

A Determination Of The Steam Consumption In The Engines Of The School Of Mines Power Plant By Means Of A Steam Flow-Meter, Harold Percy Ford, Scovill Edward Hollister

Bachelors Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Aluminum On Bronze, Edward Dale Lynton

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this thesis is to determine the effect of aluminium sic on bronze and find the best composition for commercial use"--Object, page 3.

The Geology Of A Complexly Folded Area On Crooked Creek, In Crawford County, Missouril, Victor Harmon Hughes

Professional Degree Theses

"The area comprising the subject of this thesis lies in the southwestern part of Crawford county, 2 1/2 miles east of Wesco and 12 miles south of Steelville, the county seat. It embraces all of sections 17 and 20 and portions of sections 7, 8, 16, 18, 19, and 21, township 36 north, range 4 west. The area is of special economic interest in that the formations exposed are the same as those occurring in the southeastern Disseminated Lead district of St. Francois, Madison, and Washington counties. Until discovered in 1910 by assistants of the Geological Survey, these formations were …