Mine superintendent

In the same year Mining Superintendent von Soymonof had found some of this mineral in the northern part of the Ural Mountains. When Lowitz analyzed it, he concluded that it must be iron chromate... 

Indium, like cadmium, was first discovered in substances of which it is only a non-essential constituent. Clemens Winkler said in 1867, "True indium minerals have not yet been discovered. So far as I know, indium has been detected up to the present only in a few zinc blendes in those of Freiberg, the spectral-analytical investigation of which led to the discovery of the new metal, and in the black blende, or christophite, of Breitenbrunn in Saxony, which I analyzed at the request of Mining Superintendent Breithaupt and found to contain 0.0062 per cent of indium. However, I could not detect indium in black blende of Turcz, Hungary, which is closely related to christophite, nor in Silesian calamine and the zinc and cadmium obtained from it. Bottger finally found indium in the flue dust of the zinc... 

The routine tests which are carried out on military explosives art described in U. S. War Department Technical Manual TM9-2900, Military Explosives. The testing of explosives for sensitivity, explosive power, etc., is described in the Bulletins and Technical Papers of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The student of explosives is advised to secure from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., a list of the publications of the Bureau of Mines, and then to supply himself with as many as may be of interest, for they are sold at very moderate prices. The following are especially recommended. Several of these are now no longer procurable from the Superintendent of Documents, but they may be found in many libraries. 

Or so, at least, believed the chief superintendent of mines for the Holy Roman Emperor, Lazar Ercker. See Lazarus Ercker, Treatise on Ores and Assaying, trans. and ed. Anneliese Griinhaldt Sisco and Cyril Stanley Smith (Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1951). 

In the group of Bulletins and Manuals the literature is extensive ouly few have been quoted. For further references attention is called to the list of publications of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, which can be secured from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. 

The first installation and use of an ash monitor in the U S. was a Sortex unit at the Moss No. 3 Preparation Plant (Clinch-field Coal Company, Division of Pittston Coal Group, Lebanon, Virginia). The Moss No. 3 plant produces three blends of metallurgical coal and a steam coal. The Sortex Ash monitor is used to monitor the metallurgical coal product, and its output is used by the plant superintendent to select the blending ratios of run-of-the mine coal being cleaned at the plant. 

Following the Frank Slide, McConnell and Brock were instructed by the Superintendent of Mines from the Canadian Department of the Interior to determine as carefully as possible. ..the causes... 

Records of preshift and on-shift inspections must be kept and made available to miners (as required for coal and metal/nonmetal mines in the 1977 Mine Act section 103(h)). There are other record-keeping requirements for these inspections as weU. In underground coal mines, the record must be kept in a book labeled Preshift, On-shift, and Daily Report, which must be secured in a fireproof repository. In surface coal mines, the daily report must be countersigned by the surface mine foreman, the assistant superintendent of the mine, the superintendent of the mine, or a person designated by the operator as responsible for health and safety at the mine. In metal/nonmetal mines, each working place shall be examined once each shift. Records of preshift and on-shift examinations must be kept for 1 year (coal/underground 75.1802, 75.1808 coal/surface 77.1713 metal/nonmetal 55/56/57.18-2). Record keeping of these examinations allows miners to be aware of them. 

It is clear tfom the evidence that many personnel at the Moura No. 2 mine from the superintendent down were inadequately trained in important aspects of then-duties. Some training initiatives had commenced at the mine in recent times, but overall the extent of training seems to have been inadequate to keep people up to date. 

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