plan showing location of fire and mine
Geology

How to Extinguish a Mine Fire

In the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania, mine fires occur with more or less regularity and their existence is an ever-present hazard in coal mining. In

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refined lead
Laboratory Procedures

Analyse & Assay Refined Lead

In preparing a sample of refined lead for analysis, it is necessary to exercise great care to avoid contamination, as the amounts of the various

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burrette and fittings silver
Laboratory Procedures

Silver Fineness Determination

This excellent volumetric method commends itself as a means of estimating the fineness of silver—firstly, owing to the large number of possible impurities which do

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