Volume 39
Containing the Papers and Discussions of 1908

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Officers

Past Officers

Honorary Members

List of the Meetings

Publications

Constitution and By-laws

Annual Meeting

Proceedings of the Board of Directors for the Year 1907

Report of the Council for the year 1907

Memberships

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING	DATE
New York Meeting	February, 1908
Chattanooga Meeting	October, 1908

PAPERS:

NEW YORK MEETING February, 1908

TITLE	AUTHOR
The Carbon-Iron Diagram	Henry M. Howe
The Mechanical Preparation of Ores in Sardinia	Erminio Ferraris
Primary Gold in a Colorado Granite	John B. Hastings
Origin of Pegmatite	John B. Hastings
Volcanic Waters	John B. Hastings
Genesis of the Lake Valley, New Mexico, Silver-Deposits	Charles R. Keyes
Diamonds in Arkansas	George F. Kunz and Henry S. Washington
The Central Power-Station of the De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., Kimberley, South Africa	Percy A. Robbins
Present Mining Conditions on the Rand	Thomas H. Leggett
The Work of the Testing Department of the Watertown Arsenal, in Its Relation to the Metallurgy of Steel	James E. Howard
Charcoal and Coke as Blast-Furnace Fuels	R.H. Sweetser
The Coal-Briquette Plant at Bankhead, Alberta, Canada	Edward W. Parker
Calculation of Mine-Values	R.B. Brinsmade
The Physical Features and Mining Industry of Peru	George I. Adams
The Mineral Resources of Korea	Hallet R. Ro
The Bogoslovsk Mining Estate	William H. Shockley
The Wilfley Table, II	Robert H. Richards
The Future Gold-Output of Colombia	Henry G. Granger
Dip and Pitch	R.W. Raymond
Sulphur Dioxide as an Agent in Fighting Mine-Fires	Walter O. Snelling
The Chinese on the Rand	T. Lane Carter
Luther, Körner, Humboldt, and Swedenborg	R.W. Raymond
The South African Tin-Deposits	William R. Rumbold

CHATTANOOGA MEETING October, 1908

TITLE	AUTHOR
Effect of Humidity on Mine-Explosions	Carl Scholz
The Hardinge Conical Pebble-Mill	H.W. Hardinge
Requirements of a Breathing-Apparatus for Use in Mines	Walter E. Mingramm
The Ilsede Hütte Iron-Mines at Peine, Germany	Lucius W. Mayer
The Silver-Mines of Mexico	Albert F.J. Bordeaux
The Mining and Milling of Silver-Lead- and Zinc-Ores at Pierrefitte Mines. France	William Waters Van Ness
Gold-Dredging on the Choco Rivers, Republic of Colombia, South America	Henry G. Granger
The Kaffir Mine-Laborer	Thomas Lane Carter
Investigation on Jigging	Royal Preston Jarvis
A New Theory of the Genesis of Brown Hematite-Ores; and a New Source of Sulphur Supply	H.M. Chance
The Relation of Slow Driving to Fuel-Economy in Iron Blast-Furnace Practice	John B. Miles
Sulphur in Gaseous Fuels	F. Louis Grammer
An Unusual Blast-Furnace Product ; and Nickel in Some Virginia Iron-Ores	Frank Firmstone
The Treatment of the Gold-Ores of Hog Mountain, Alabama	T.H. Aldrich Jr.
The Constitution of Copper-Iron and Copper-Lead-Iron Mattes	Charles H. Fulton and Ivan E. Goodner
Professional Ethics	John Hays Hammond
The Behavior of Calcium Sulphate at Elevated Temperatures with Some Fluxes	H.O. Hofman and W. Mostowitsch
Philippine Coal-Fields	J.B. Dilworth
A Labor-Chart for the Management of Mining and Milling Operations	Joseph Mac Donald
Biographical Notice of James Duncan Hague	Rossiter W. Raymond
Development-Sampling and Ore-Valuation of Gold-Mines	C. Baring Horwood and Mungo Park
Gayley's Invention of the Dry Blast	R.W. Raymond
Experience with the Gayley Dry Blast at the Warwick Furnaces, Pottstown Pa.	Edward B. Cook
The Pearce Gold-Separation Process	Harold V. Pearce
The Distribution of the Elements in Igneous Rocks	Henry S. Washington
The Air-Furnace Process of Preparing White Cast-Iron for the Malleablizing Process	Henry M. Howe and Enrique Touceda
The Professional Examination of Undeveloped Mineral Properties	Charles Catlett

DISCUSSIONS

TITLE	AUTHOR
Of Mr. Sweetser's Paper on Chlorination of Gold-Ores: Laboratory-Tests (see Trans., xxxviii., 236
Of Mr. Brown's Paper or1 The Vein-System of the Standard Mine, Bodie. California (see Trans.. xxxviii., 343)
Of Mr. Douglas's Paper on Secrecy in the Arts (see Trans., xxxviii., 455)
Of Mr. Wheeler's Paper on Pure Coal as a Basis for the Comparison of Bituminous Coals (see Trans., xxxviii., 621)
Of Mr. Lee's Paper on The Corrosion of Water-Jackets of Copper Blast-Furnaces (see Trans., xxxviii., 877)
Of Mr. Howe's Paper on Piping and Segregation in Steel Ingots (see Trans, xxxviii., 3)
Of Mr. Keyes's Paper on Genesis of the Lake Valley. New Mexico, Silver- Deposits (see p. 139)
Of Mr. Leggett's Paper on Present Mining Conditions on the Rand (see p. 211)
Of Mr. Howard's Paper on The Work of the Testing Department of the Watertown Arsenal, in Its Relation to the Metallurgy of Steel (see p. 223)
Of Mr. Parker's Paper on The Coal-Briquette Plan at Bankhead, Alberta, Canada (see p. 236)
Of Mr. Shockley's Paper on The Bogoslovsk Mining Estate (see p. 274)
Of Mr. Raymond's Paper on Dip and Pitch (see p. 326)
Of Mr. Chance's Paper on A New Theory of the Genesis of Brown Hematite- Ores; and a New Source of Sulphur Supply (see p. 522)
Of Mr. Firmstone's Paper on An Unusual Blast-Furnace Product; and Nickel in Some Virginia Iron-Ores (see p. 547)
Of Mr. Cook's Paper on Experience with the Gayley Dry Blast at the Warwick Furnaces, Pottstown, Pa. (see p. 705)
Of the Report on The Uniform Nomenclature of Iron and Steel (see Bi-Monthly Bulletin, No. 20, March, 1908, pp. 227 to 237)

INDEX

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