Volume 214
1959
Mining, Minerals Beneficiation, Coal, Economics, Industrial Minerals, Geology, Geophysics
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Contents

Mining

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Basic Studies of Percussion Drilling H. L. Hartman
The 1959 Jackling Lecture–Economic History of the Lake Superior Iron District R. S. Archibald
Gyro-Compass Surveys Underground Workings and Boreholes E. P. Pfleider and O. Rellensmann
Rock Breakage with Confined Concentrated Charges W. I. Duvall and T. C. Atchison
Case History in Pillar Recovery J. J. Reed
Deflection of Mine Roof Supports L. Adler

Minerals Beneficiation

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Polyacrylamides for the Mining Industry M. F. McCarty and R. S. Olson
Interaction of Minerals with Gases and Reagents in Flotation I. Plaskin
Experiments in Concentrating Iron Ore from the Pea Ridge Deposit, Missouri M. M. Fine and D. W. Frommer
Activation and Deactivation Studies with Copper on Sphalerite A. M. Gaudin, D. W. Fuerstenau, and G. W. Mao
Recent Developments in Pebble Milling B. S. Crocker
Application of Electron Diffraction and Electron Microscopy to Mineral Engineering J. E. Lawver and G. L. Samsel
Effect of Pulp Depth and Initial Pulp Density in Batch Thickening A. M. Gaudin, M. C. Fuerstenau, and S. R. Mitchell
Ferrograde Concentrates from Arkansas Manganiferous Limestone M. M. Fine
Economy Through Design R. J. Linney
Effects of Structure and Unsaturation of Collector on Soap Flotation of Iron Ores S. R. B. Cooke, I. Iwasaki, and H. S. Choi
Pebble Milling Practice at the South African Gold Mines of Union Corp. Ltd O. A. E. Jackson
Retention Time in Continuous Vibratory Ball Milling (Discussion, p. 1242) D. W. Fuerstenau
High-Intensity Magnetic Separation of Iron Ores O. E. Palasvirta

Coal

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Gravity Methods Clean Extreme Fine Sizes of Bituminous Coal H. B. Charmbury and D. R. Mitchell
Mineral Dressing Fundamentals Applied to the Fine Coal Problem M. C. Chang and J. Dasher
Permissible–Type Dust Counter for Coal Mines A. L. Thomas, Jr., and S. Oglesby, Jr.
Laboratory Investigation–Flocculation to Improve Coal Slurry Filtration (Discussion, p. 719) M. R. Geer, P. S. Jacobsen, and H. F. Yancey
Advancing Through Caved Ground with Yieldable Arches J. Quigley
Face Ventilation for Continuous Miners J. D. Kalasky
Factors Affecting the Cleaning of Fine Coals by the Convertol Process S.-C. Sun and W. L. McMorris, III

Economics

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Trends in Real Prices of Representative Mineral Commodities, 1890-1957 C. W. Merrill

Industrial Minerals

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Sand Deposits of Titanium Minerals J. L. Gillson
Thorium and Uranium Resources in Monazite Placers of the Western Piedmont, North and South Carolina W. C. Overstreet, P. K. Theobald, Jr., and J. W. Whitlow
Market Trends for Mineral Fillers in Western States W. F. Dietrich
Relation of Land Subsidence to Ground-Water Withdrawals in the Upper Gulf Coast Region, Texas A. G. Winslow and L. A. Wood

Geology

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Tungsten in Searles Lake L. G. Carpenter and D. E. Garrett
Midnite Mine–Geology and Development R. F. Sheldon
Drill Core Scanner Proved in Field W. W. Vaughn, R. H. Barnett, and E. E. Wilson
The Gem Stocks and Adjacent Orebodies, Coeur d'Alene District, Idaho G. M. Crosby
Bauxitization in the Pocos de Caldas District, Brazil B. N. Webber
Geology of the Ross-Adams Uranium-Thorium Deposit, Alaska E. M. MacKevett, Jr.
Nuclear Detector for Beryllium Minerals T. Cantwell, H. E. Hawkes, and N. C. Rasmussen
The Electronic Computer and Statistics fur Predicting Ore Recovery R. F. Shurtz
Time Aspects of Geothermometry R. J. P. Lyon
Quantitative Mineralogy as a Guide In Exploration R. J. P. Lyon and W. M. Tuddenham

Geophysics

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Geochemical Study of Soil Contamination in the Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho F. C. Canney
Subsurface Investigations of a Plant Site L. Scharon, R. Uhley, and T. Meidav
A Decade of Development in Overvoltage Surveying R. W. Baldwin
Processing California Bastnasite Ore C. J. Baroch, M. Smutz, and E. H. Olson
Meteorological Influence on Radon Concentration in Drillholes A. B. Tanner
Airborne Gravity Meter–Description and Preliminary Results H. T. Lundberg and J. H. Ratcliffe
Scandinavian Electromagnetic Prospecting F. C. Frischknecht

Technical Notes

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Beneficiation of Autunitic Ores W. C. Aitkenhead and J. A. Jaekel
Apparatus for Testing Coal Sedimentation S. C. Sun
Sphalerite Flotation with Guanidine Compounds and Derivatives as Collectors P. R. Hines
Geochemical Study of Pb-Ag-Zn Ore from the Darwin Mine, Inyo County, California W. E. Hall
Fishing Tools for Retrieving Gamma-Ray Logging Components C. M. Bunker and J. M. Ohm

Discussion of Papers Published Prior to 1957

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Intergranular Comminution by Heating (1958) (211, p. 490) J. H. Brown, A. M. Gaudin, and C. M. Loeb, Jr.
Grinding Ball Size Selection (1958) (211, p. 592) F. C. Bond
Lineament Tectonics and Some Ore Districts of the Southwest (1958) (211, p. 1169) E. B. Mayo
Scale-Up Relationships in Spodumene Flotation (1958) (211, p. 1182) W. E. Horst
Precision Survey for Tunnel Control (1958) (211, p. 977) D. D. Donald

Extractive Metallurgy

As many of members of the Society of Mining Engineers are interested in the papers of Extractive Metallurgy Division of The Metallurgical Society of AIME, the titles of the papers published for that Division in 1959 are listed below. These papers, and discussion, appear in AIME Transactions (1959), 215, The Metallurgical Society
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Surface Tension and Contact Angles in Some Liquid Metal-Solid Ceramic Systems at Elevated Temperatures B. C. Allen and W. D. Kingery
Heat Flow and Temperature Distribution around a Copper Converter Tuyere W. A. Krivsky and R. Schuhmann, Jr.
Electrical Conductivity of Melts in the Systems NaCl-ZrCl4 and NaCl-KCL (1:1 molar)-ZrCl4 (Technical Note) L. J. Howell and H. H. Kellogg
A Thermodynamic Study of The Titanium-Sulfur System in the Region TiS1.93 to TiS0.80 R. P. Abendroth and A. W. Schlechten
The Thermodynamics of the Liquidus-Solidus Gap in Binary Alloys: The Silver-Gold System J. L. White
Electrodeposition of Titanium from Fused Chloride Baths Using TiCI4 as a Feed Material W. R. Opie and K. V. Svanstrom
Preparation of Two Lithium-Arsenic Compounds (Technical Note) R. E. Tate and F. W. Schonfeld
Preparation of Anhydrous Chlorides of Cerium and Thorium (Technical Note) R. Didchenko
The Preparation of High-Purity Uranium Metal by the Bomb Reduction of Uranium Tetrafluoride with Calcium R. W. Kewish, R. J. Bard, J. P. Bertino, O. E. Fry, S. W. Hayter, F. J. Hill, B. L. Kelchner, and A. W. Savage
The Separation of Rare Earths by Ion Exchange J. W. Powell and F. H. Spedding
High-Purity Tantalum R. F. Rolsten
A Redetermination of the Lead-Lead Sulfide Equilibrium Between 585° and 920°C J. R. Stubbles and C. E. Birchenall
The Present State of Titanium Extractive Metallurgy W. J. Kroll
Self and Interdiffusion in Liquid Zinc Amalgams H. W. Schadler and R. E. Grace
Equilibrium Electrode Potentials of Some Metal-Chlorine Galvanic Cells and Activities of Some Metal Chlorides in LiCl-KCL Eutectic Melt L. Yang and R. G. Hudson
Removal of Fission Products from Molten Thorium-Uranium Alloy A. G. Buyers, J. Chilton, and W. E. McKee
Separation of Yttrium and Rare-Earth Nitrates with the Solvent Extraction System-Tri-N-Butylamine-3 Methyl-2-Butanone W. G. Gruzensky and G. T. Engel
Oxidation of Sphalerite by Sulfur Trioxide A. W. Sommer and H. H. Kellogg
Stoichiometry of Lead Telluride E. Miller, K. Komarek, and I. Cadoff
Electrical Conductivity of Molten FeS D. Argyriades, G. Derge, and G. M. Pound

Index

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