Volume 57
Containing the Papers and Discussions Presented at the New York Meeting, February, 1917, and at the St. Louis Meeting, October, 1917
Title Page
Preface
Contents
Officers and Directors
Honorary Members
Committees

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING DATE
St. Louis Meeting October, 1917

PAPERS:

NEW YORK MEETING February, 1917

TITLE AUTHOR
A Study of the Silica Refractories (with Discussion) J. Spotts McDowell
The Genesis of Asbestos and Asbestiform Minerals (with Discussion) Stephen Taber
The Conservation of Phosphate Rock in the United States (with Discussion) W. C. Phalen
An Investigation on Rock Crushing made at McGill University (with Discussion) John W. Bell
Countercurrent Decantation (with Discussion) Luther B. Eames
Anthracite Stripping (with Discussion) J. B. Warriner
Portable Miners’ Lamps (with Discussion) Edwin M. Chance
Shot-firing in Bituminous Mines (with Discussion) M. D. Cooper
The Pennsylvania Mine Fire, Butte, Mont. C. E. Nighman and R. S. Foster
Report of the Secretary of the Committee on Safety and Sanitation (with Discussion) E. Maltby Shipp

ST. LOUIS MEETING October, 1917

TITLE AUTHOR
The Hancock Jig in the Concentration of Lead Ores (with Discussion) Harold Rabling
Concentration Practice in Southeast Missouri (with Discussion, p. 1089) A. P. Watt
The Milling Practice of the St. Joseph Lead Co. (with Discussion) L. A. Delano
Ore-dressing Practice in the Joplin District (with Discussion) C. A. Wright
A Standard Screen Scale for Testing Sieves  
A Uniform Sizing Diagram from Different Screen Standards John Randall
The Effect of Anti-friction Bearings on the Haulage of a Coal Mine (with Discussion) P. B. Liebermann
Coal Wastage (with Discussion) Francis S. Peabody
Steam-shovel Mining of Bituminous Coal (with Discussion) H. H. Stoek
Merit Rating of Coal Mines under Workmen’s Compensation Insurance (with Discussion) E. C. Lee
The Coal Industry of Illinois (with Discussion) C. M. You
Lead Mining and Smelting at Galetta, Ont. William E. Newman
The Tredinnick-Pattinson Process William E. Newman
The Metallurgy of Lead Ores in the Lower Mississippi Valley Herman Garlichs
The Media Mill, Webb City, Mo. (with Discussion) H. B. Pulsifer
Salt in the Metallurgy of Lead (with Discussion) Oliver C. Ralston, Clyde E. Williams, Marvin J. Udy, G. J. Holt
The Zinc Ores of the Joplin District (with Discussion) W. Geo. Waring
Development and Underground Mining Practice in the Joplin District (with Discussion) H. I. Young
Oxide of Zinc (with Discussion) G. C. Stone
Zinc Burning as a Metallurgical Process (with Discussion) W. R. Ingalls
Some Economic Factors in the Production of Electrolytic Zinc (with Discussion) R. G. Hall
Zinc Mining at Franklin, N. J. (with Discussion) C. M. Haight and B. F. Tillson
Characteristics of Zinc Deposits in North America (with Discussion) Frank L. Nason
The New Jersey Zinc Co.’s Franklin Laboratory D. Jenkins
Palmerton Zinc Refractories (with Discussion) C. P. Fiske
A Few Notes on the Future Work of the Petroleum Geologist in the Mid-Continent Oil Fields Dorsey Hager
Geologic Structure in the Cushing Oil and Gas Field, Oklahoma Carl H. Beal
Granite in Kansas Wells Park Wright
Review of Present Knowledge Regarding Petroleum Resources of South America (with Discussion) F. G. Clapp
The Estimation of Petroleum Reserves (with Discussion) Robert W. Pack
The Southern Extremity of the “Clinton” Gas Pools in Ohio L. S. Panyity
Relation of Sulphur to Variation in the Gravity of California Petroleum (with Discussion) G. Sherburne Rogers
The Practical Value of Oil and Gas Bureaus (with Discussion) W. G. Matteson
A Review of the Exploration at Belle Isle, Louisiana (with Discussion) A. F. Lucas
A Feasible Plan for Gaging Individual Wells (with Discussion) Roswell H. Johnson and W. E. Bernard
Geosynclines and Petroliferous Deposits (with Discussion) Marcel R. Daly
Funnel and Anticlinal-ring Structure Associated with Igneous Intrusions in the Mexican Oil Fields (with Discussion) V. R. Garfias and H. J. Hawley

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