Technical Information Database

U.S. Bureau of Mines
Abstracts of Information Circulars 1993-1982
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IC 93377 Chromium Availability in Market Economy Countries and Network Flow Model -
Analysis of World Chromium Supply
Edward H. Boyle, Jr., Deborah J. Shields, and Lorie A. Wagner
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G

IC 9328 A Methodology for Determining Cyanide Heap Leach Reclamation Performance Bonds
David K. Denton, Jr., Stephen R. Iverson, and Burton B. Gosling
Appendix A. - Bonding
Appendix B. - Cyanide detoxification regulations
Appendix C. - Cyanide detoxification methods
Appendix D. - Earthwork, revegetation, and bonding general considerations
Appendix E. - HEAPREC equations
Appendix F. - Bond calculation example

IC 9327 Manganese Availability - Market Economy Countries: 1980's Perspective
Joseph Coffman

IC 9310 The Availability of Primary Copper in Market Economy Countries
Kenneth E. Porter and Gary R. Peterson

IC 9307 PREVAL: Prefeasibility Software Program for Evaluating Mineral Properties
R. Craig Smith

IC 9298 Simplified Cost Models For Prefeasibility Mineral Evaluations
Thomas W. Camm

IC 9284 User's Manual for the U.S. Bureau of Mines In Situ Copper Oxide Mining Cost Model
Joseph M. Pugliese and Orin M. Peterson

IC 9676 Availability of Primary Nickel in Market-Economy Countries
Donald I. Bleiwas

IC 9261 Fire Location Model
John C. Edwards

IC 9241 Procedures for Obtaining Department of Transportation Explosive Classification
- Recommendations Through the Bureau of Mines
Donald A. Voigt and Richard J. Mainiero

IC 9180 Tin Occurrences Near Rocky Mountain (Lime Peak), East-Central Alaska
J. Dean Warner, D.C. Dahlin, and L.L. Brown

IC 9173 Investigation of Dust Sources and Control Technology for Longwall Plow Operations
John J. McClelland and Robert A. Jankowski

IC 9144 Spontaneous Combustion Fire Detection for Deep Metal Mines
William H. Pomroy

IC 9136 Survey of Nuisance and Biologically Active Dusts in Metal and Nonmetal Mines
P.J. Watson, D. Tallman, and J.E. Pahlman

IC 9135 Surface Mine Blasting
Staff, Bureau of Mines

IC 9135a Bureau of Mines Surface Mine Blasting Research
Dennis V. D'Andreaz
IC 9135b Reducing Accidents Through Improved Blasting Safety
Larry R. Fletcher and Dennis V. D'Andrea
IC 9135c Blaster's Training Manual for Metal and Nonmetal Miners
Michael A. Peltier, Larry R. Fletcher, and Richard A. Dick
IC 9135d Delayed Blasting Tests To Reduce Rockfall Hazards
Virgil J. Stachura and Larry R. Fletcher
IC 9135e Effects of Blast Vibration on Construction Material Cracking in Residential Structures
Mark S. Stagg and David E. Siskind
IC 9135f Blast Vibration Measurements Near Structures
David E. Siskind and Mark S. Stagg
IC 9135g Initiation Timing Influence on Ground Vibration and Airblast
John W. Kopp
IC 9135h Vibrations From Blasting Over Abandoned Underground Mines
David E. Siskind and Virgil J. Stachura
IC 9135i Computer Modeling of Rock Motion
Stephen A. Rholl.
IC 9135j Influence of Blast Delay Time on Rock Fragmentation: One-Tenth-Scale Tests
Mark S. Stagg and Michael J. Nutting
IC 9135k Blasting Effects on Appalachian Water Wells
David E. Siskind and John W. Kopp
IC 9135l Fiber Optic Probe to Measure Downhole Detonation Velocities of Explosive Columns
David L. Schulz
IC 9135m Stemming Ejection and Burden Movements of Small Borehole Blasts
John W. Kopp

IC 9134 Mining Applications of Life Support Technology 

IC 9120 Fuse Wire Arc Tester
Peter G. Kovalchik

IC 9107 Company Towns Versus Company Camps in Developing Alaska's Mineral Resources
Robert Bottge

IC 8925 Explosives and Blasting Procedures Manual
Richard A. Dick, Larry R. Fletcher, Dennis V. D'Andrea
Chapter 1 - Explosives Products
Chapter 2 - Initiation and Priming
Chapter 3 - Blasthole Loading
Chapter 4 - Blast Design
Chapter 5 - Environmental Effects of Blasting
Chapter 6 - Blasting Safety

IC 8600 Methane Control in United States Coal Mines - 1972
M.G. Zabetakis, Maurice Deul, and M.L. Skow

IC 8597 Active List of Permissible Explosives and Blasting Devices Approved Before
December 31, 1972
J. Ribovich and R.W. Watson

IC 8560 The Impact of Blasting Agents and Slurries on Explosives Technology
Richard A. Dick

IC 8550 Designing Blast Patterns Using Empirical Formulas
Joseph M. Pugliese

IC 8541 Methods For Evaluating Explosives and Hazardous Materials
C.M. Mason and E.G. Aiken

IC 8405 Factors in Selecting and Applying Commercial Explosives and Blasting Agents
Richard A. Dick

IC 8375 TUNNELING TECHNOLOGY: Its Past and Present
Thomas M. Nasiatka,

IC 8374 An Engineering and Economic Study of a Gold Mining Operation
Edward E. Johnson and Harold J. Bennett

IC 8308 Research and Technologic Work on Explosives, Explosions, and Flames: Fiscal
Year 1965
Staff, Explosives Research Center

IC8299 Permissible Mine Equipment Approved by The Bureau of Mines During 1963-64

IC 8294 Methods and Costs of Constructing the Underground Facility of North American
Air Defense Command at Cheyenne Mountain, El Paso County, Colo.
Merwin H. Howes

IC 8280 Mining Methods and Costs at Section 23 Uranium Mine, Homestake-Sapin
Partners, McKinley County, N. Mex.
W.E. Young and D.T. Delicate

IC 8249 Active List of Permissible Explosives and Blasting Devices Approved Before Jan.
1, 1965
N.E. Hanna and P.A. Richardson