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The geology and ore deposits of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho

The area commonly known as the Coeur d'Alene district (although for purposes of record and administration it has been divided into a number of local mining districts) is situated, so far as its productive part is concerned in Shoshone County, in that narrow portion of Idaho which extends northward between the States of Washington and Montana to the international boundary. It li
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F. L. Ransome, Frank Cathcart Calkins

The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts

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Arthur James Collier, Frank Lee Hess, Philip Sidney Smith, A. H. Brooks

The Guadalupian Fauna

The first descriptions of the Guadalupian fauna were published nearly fifty years ago. This early account of Shumard's was meager enough, but gave promise of a facies interesting and novel among the known Carboniferous faunas of North America. The following pages add largely to our knowledge of Guadalupian life, and I believe more than make good any promise contained in the previous account. Never
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George H. Girty

The influence of fine grinding on the water and ferrous-iron content of minerals and rocks

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W. F. Hillebrand

The interpretation of topographic maps

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Rollin D. Salisbury, Wallace Walter Atwood

The iron ores of the Iron Springs district, southern Utah

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Charles Kenneth Leith, Edmund Cecil Harder

The Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts, Alaska

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F.E. Wright, Charles Will Wright

The magnesite deposits of California

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Frank Lee Hess

The nature of the volatile matter of coal as evolved under different conditions

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H. C. Porter

The prevention of mine explosions, report and recommendations

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Victor Watteyne, Carl Meissner, Arthur Desborough

The purchase of coal under Government and commercial specifications on the basis of its heating value, with analyses of coal delivered under Government contracts

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Dwight T. Randall

The strength of concrete beams; results of tests of 108 beams, first series, made at the structural materials testing laboratories

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Richard Lewis Humphrey