Minerals YearbookBureau of Mines, 1939 |
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Alaska alloys aluminum amalgamation antimony Arizona average base bullion bauxite bullion Bureau of Mines California chromite Coal Colorado compared concentrates consumption copper County Creek crude cyanidation declined decreased district in 1938 district.-The domestic dragline excavator Dry and siliceous exports flotation foreign furnaces Germany gold and silver gold-silver gross tons Gypsum Idaho imports included under Miscellaneous Includes minerals indicated increased industry lessees lithopone long tons magnetite manganese metal content metric tons Mexico mill Mineral production Nevada nickel obtained through cooperation old tailings operated ounces Fine ounces ounces of gold ounces of silver oxide percent pig iron pigments placer mines plant platinum pottery and refractories Pounds Pounds production of gold recovered metals recovery refined refineries reported Sand and gravel scrap secondary shipments short tons smelter smelting sold by producers steel stocks terms of recovered Total value treated troy ounces tungsten United Utah Value Pounds Value zinc oxide zinc-lead
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Page 656 - ... be exempt from all other duties, taxes, fees, charges or exactions, imposed on or in connection with importation, in excess of those imposed on the day of the signature of this Agreement or required to be imposed thereafter under the laws of the United States of America in force on that day. 3. The Government of the United States of America reserves the right to withdraw or to modify the concession granted on any article enumerated and described in Schedule III at any time after the termination...
Page viii - Critical materials are those materials essential to the national defense, the procurement problems of which in war, while difficult, are less serious than those of strategic materials because they can be either domestically produced or obtained in more adequate quantities or have a lesser degree of essentiality, and for which sonic degree of conservation and distribution control will be necessary.
Page 316 - GEOLOGIST. a In calculating the metal content of the ores from assays allowance has been made for smelting losses in the case of zinc but not in the case of lead. In comparing the values of ore and metal it should be borne in mind that the value given for the ore is that actually received by the producer, whereas the value of the lead is calculated from the average daily quotations at New York.
Page 487 - Secondary metals" are those recovered from scrap metal, sweepings, skimmings, and drosses, and are so called to distinguish them from the metals derived directly from ores, which are termed
Page 130 - PRICES The two major markets for lead in the United States are New York and St. Louis ; much of the lead produced in the United States is sold at prices based on quotations in these markets.
Page 123 - Lead bullion or base bullion, lead In pigs and bars, lead dross, reclaimed lead, scrap lead, antimonial lead, antimonial scrap lead, type metal. Babbitt metal, solder, all alloys or...
Page viii - Strategic materials are those essential to national defense, for the supply of which in war dependence must be placed in whole, or in substantial part, on sources outside the continental limits of the United States; and for which strict conservation and distribution control measures will be necessary.
Page 320 - In comparing the values of ore and metal it should be borne in mind that the value given for the ore is that actually received by the producer, whereas the value of the lead and line is calculated from the average price for all grades.
Page 529 - State and permission was not given to publish the value. These figures are taken directly from statements of the producers and probably represent the commercial selling prices only approximately, as all the reports are not consistent. Some of them evidently include...
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