Our mineral reserves

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Identifikator:: 867029366

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93011

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Smith, George Otis http://d-nb.info/gnd/117634530

Title:: Our mineral reserves

Place of publication:: Washington, DC

Publisher:: Gov. Print. Off.

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (48 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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8 OUR MINERAL RESERVES. tins already published has devolved principally upon the geologists of the Survey, who for several years have made a special study of the country’s mineral resources. The specialists who have thus contributed to this bulletin are Edson S. Bastin, Ernest F. Burchard, B. S. Butler, David T. Day, J. P. Dunlop, Frank L. Hess, J. M. Hill, Edward W. Parker, W. C. Phalen, and C. E. Siebenthal. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. Several reports issued by the Government will be especially useful to those who are interested in mineral supplies. These publications furnish authoritative answers to many of the inquiries now made by importers and domestic consumers and by exporters and foreign buyers. 1 The Geological Survey issues an annual report on " Mineral Re sources of the United States,” which is published finally in two bound volumes, but at first in about 65 separate chapters, which are issued as pamphlets several months in advance of the bound volumes. Each of these chapters treats of an important mineral product. Other annual publications of the Survey that contain reports on the country’s mineral resources are the bulletins entitled “ Contribu tions to Economic Geology,” published in two series—(I) metals and non metals except fuels, (II) mineral fuels—and “Mineral Resources of Alaska,” the report on the progress of investigations in Alaska. The separate papers in these bulletins are also issued in the form of advance chapters and include brief reports on geologic investiga tions in mining regions or on newly discovered deposits or recently opened mining districts. Examples of such chapters recently issued that are of interest in connection with the present discussion are entitled “ Potash in western saline deposits,” “ Nitrate near Melrose, Mont.,” “Late developments of magnesite deposits in California and Nevada,” “Analyses of coal samples from various fields in the United States,” and “A barite deposit near Wrangell, Alaska.” Another recent Survey publication is a bulletin entitled “Useful Minerals of the United States” (Bulletin 585), which may be de scribed as a directory of all the minerals that are now of recognized utility, with a list of localities at which these minerals occur in suffi cient quantity to be of present or possible future value. The direc tory of minerals is well supplemented by another bulletin of the Geological Survey, entitled “The Mining Districts of the Western United States” (Bulletin 507), which furnishes a complete index to the mineral-producing centers of the western part of the country. A series of maps showing the quarry localities of the country is contained in the 1911, 1912, and 1913 volumes of “Mineral Resources 1 The publications here mentioned, issued by the United States Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, and the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, may be obtained free, until the editions are exhausted, on application to the respective bureaus at Wash ington, D. C.

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