Volume 141
Metal Mining 1940
Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Fund Papers and Discussions Presented at Meetings Held at Birmingham, April 7-9, 1937; Vancouver, September 13-20, 1937; New York, February 14-17, 1938; February 13-16, 1939; February 12-15, 1940; and at Tucson, November 1-5, 1938
Title Page
Foreword – A. B. Parsons
A.I.M.E. Officers and Directors
Contents
Committees on Mining Methods and on Health and Safety in Mines

PAPERS:

TITLE AUTHOR
Recent Improvements in Mining Practice on the Mesabi Range (T.P. 968, with discussion) Arthur E. Anderson, J. Murray Riddell and Grover J. Holt
A New Method of Top Slicing at Kipushi, Katanga, Belgian Congo (T.P. 1078, with discussion) G. Van Esbroeck and M. Van Weyenbergh
Preliminary Stripping of the Morenci Open Pit, Arizona (T.P. 980, with discussion) Walter C. Lawson
Recent Improvements in the Mining Practice of the Tri-State District (T.P. 905, with discussion) C. W. Nicolson
Ymir Yankee Girl Gold Mines Ltd (T.P. 937) Lawrence B. Wright and Lester G. Morrell
Prospecting, Mining and Washing the Brown Iron Ores of Alabama (T.P. 860) Charles Morgan
Sublevel Caving, Large-pillar Method, at the Montreal Mine (T.P. 886, with discussion) R. A. Bowen
Shaft Sinking on the Gogebic Iron Range (T.P. 887, with discussion) W. A. Knoll and J. C. Sullivan
Sand Filling at the Homestake Mine (T.P. 1075, with discussion) A. J. M. Ross
Progress of “Big Blasting” at Climax (T. P. 936, with discussion) F. S. McNicholas
Report of Committee on Classification of Surface Mining Method  
Controlling Subsidence of a Large Inverted Cone of Barren Rock Lying above the Ore Body, Colorada Mine, Cananea Consolidated Copper Company (T.P. 938) William Carton and Cyril U. Cooledge
Some Outstanding Mine-hoisting Equipment (T.P. 1190, with discussion) Bruno V. E. Nordberg
An Experimental Study of the Rock Drill – Digest by B. F. Tillson T. Suzuki
Hot-milling of Rock-drill Bits (T.P. 1215) Robert C. Berggan
Recent Trend in Drill-steel Gauge at Homestake (T.P. 1214) Harlan A. Walker
Air Transport at Agua Fria (T.P. 1156, with discussion) Felix B. Shay
Hazards from Gases in Metal Mines and Protections against Them (T. P. 984, with discussion) E. H. Denny
Safety and Health Efforts of the Anaconda Company at Butte (T. P. 993) John L. Boardman
Ventilation and Air Conditioning of the Magma Mine (T.P. 979) C. B. Foraker
Ventilation and Dust Prevention in the Butte Mines (T.P. 969) A. S. Richardson
Air Cooling in the Gold Mines on the Rand (T.P. 970, with discussion) Willis H. Carrier
Suggestions for the Control of Silicosis in Mining (T.P. 930) Donald E. Cummings

INDEX

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