Mineral Resources of the United States

Bureau of Mines, Minerals Yearbook, annual, 1910-. Data on production, sales, consumption, foreign trade, and prices of minerals and mineral products, including chemicals derived from coal and petroleum, nonferrous metals, sulfur, and other mineral raw materials. Data for 1950 for many items now available in preprint form, and many preliminary annual and monthly data for 1951 and 1952 available in Mineral Industry Surveys. Formerly Mineral Resources of the United States, 1910-1931. 

Mineral Resources of the United States—United States Oeolojfical Survey,... 

Sutro, A. (1868). The mineral resources of the United States and the importance and necessity of inaugurating a rational system of mining with special reference to the Comstock Lode and the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada. Murphy Baltimore, http //www. sfmuseum.org/sutro/bio.html P... 

Primary U.S. and world lead production levels, along with statistics for secondary production, U.S. imports and exports, and estimates of apparent U.S. consumption are set forth in Table 3.2. From 1900 to 1923, the USGS provided production rates via the series. Mineral Resources of the United States. From 1927 to 1934, the production figures were produced by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, which became the sponsor of Mineral Resources. From 1932 to 1994, the Bureau became the principal source of U.S. lead production data as the annual Mineral Yearbook series. This continued until 1994, the last year in which the Bureau of Mines existed as a discrete governmental agency. Post-1994, the sources include figures of the USGS, which took over the metal production estimation tasks of the former Bureau in 1995. 

World lead consumption figures for the period 1891 — 1900, figures which include those of the United States, were estimates provided by The Metallgesellschaft, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany and tabulated in the USGS Mineral Resources of the United States annual document for the calendar year 1900. The world lead consumption rates (MT) per year were ... 

Various sources Mineral Resources of the United States, various annual compendia, and Minerals Yearbook, U.S. Bureau of Mines, annual compendia. White lead is the sum of dry white lead and white lead in oil. 

Since 1882, however, such records have been faithfully kept by the United States Geological Survey, Washington, T). C., and have been published yearly in Mineral Resources of the United States which is issued by the Survey. 

The U.S. Geological Survey collects, interprets, publishes, and distributes data about the physical and geologic features, minerals, mineral fuels, and water resources of the United States, its territories, and possessions. Survey reports are of two main types book reports (professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and circulars), and maps. 

Smith, J. W., Oil Shale Resources of the United States, Mineral and Energy Resources Series, V 23, No. 6, 1980. 

Congress, in an attempt to promote mineral development in the United States, has exempted most hazardous wastes produced at the wellsite under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C regulations. Hazardous wastes are listed due to inherent characteristics of ... 

Despite the amounts of Mg and Ca sources being vast, as mineral carbonation research continues to expand, then the need for a detailed worldwide evaluation of the amounts of suitable mineral deposits becomes more important [16]. A recently conducted evaluation of mineral reserves in the United States concluded that mineral resources are unlikely to be a limiting factor when industrial-scale mineral sequestration is considered [77]. It was estimated that there is enough... 

Brown, E., Skougstad, M. W., and Fishman, M. J., Methods for collection and analysis of water samples for dissolved minerals and gases in "Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations of the United States Geological Survey", Book 5, Chapter Al, U.S. GPO, Washington, D.C., 1970. 

President s Materials Policy Commission, Resources for Freedom, 5 vol., June, 1952. Study of raw material requirements of the United States, 1950-1975. Major sections on chemicals, metals, minerals, fuels, agriculture, forest resources, water, and ocean resources. Forecasts demand for major chemicals and raw materials up to 1975. 

To help you understand foreign economic activities and buying power, GNP values for other countries are shown in Table 2.9 for 1985-1991. Also shown is GNP per person. There is a tremendous range of GNP per capita, from 35,590 for Switzerland to 74 for Mozambique, or more than a 500-fold difference in material wealth and comfort. The wealthy nations tend to be the industrial nations in temperate climates, and the poor nations tend to be those relying on agricultural economies in tropical climates. Mineral resources are the basis of wealth for Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Among industrial nations, the per-capita wealth of the United States is surpassed by six countries listed in Table 2.9. 

Hein, J.R., Morgenson, L.A., Clague, D.A. and Koski, R.A., 1987. Cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts from the exclusive economic zone of the United States and nodules from the oceanic Pacific. In Scholl, D.W., Grantz, A. and Vedder, J.G (eds). Geology and resource potential of the continental margin of western North America and the adjacent oceans-Beaufort Sea to Baja California. Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Recources, Earth Science Series, Houston, Texas, pp. 753-771. 

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - This committee has jurisdiction on coal production, distribution and utilization energy policy energy research, conservation, and development hydroelectric power irrigation mineral conservation nonmilitary development of nuclear energy solar energy systems and over territorial possessions, including trusteeships of the United States. 

Wood, G.H. Jr., Culbertson, W.C., Kehm, T.M., and Carter, M.D. 1982. Coal resources classification system of the United States Geological Survey. In Proceedings, Fifth Symposium on the Geology of Rocky Mountain Coal 1982, K.D. Gurgel (Ed.). Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Bulletin No. 118, pp. 233-238. 

Develops technology essential for supplying the mineral needs of the country and while also protecting the environment Maps and reports on the physical features of the United States and its, mineral, fuel, and water resources... 

Acetic acid has a place in organic processes comparable to sulfuric acid in the mineral chemical industries and its movements mirror the industry. Growth of synthetic acetic acid production in the United States was gready affected by the dislocations in fuel resources of the 1970s. The growth rate for 1988 was 1.5%. 

How do we take a future-oriented approach to research on energy and metals What criteria do we use to set research priorities Short-term projections of prices and availability of resources are poor guides to a national policy for research. It is virtually impossible to predict the course that energy prices will take over the next few years or to prognosticate political events that might affect the snpply of key minerals to the United States. The most anyone can say is that oil prices will rise and that a real threat exists to the stability of onr snpply of several key minerals. 

In the United States, the situation was in many ways different. With its large sulfur, natural gas, phosphate, and even potash resources, America s fertilizer industry rested on a sound base. It was an exporter of minerals and fertilizers, and did not have to worry to the same extent as Europe s industry about competing imports from Socialist countries. But reserves of sulfur extracted by the Frasch process have been depleted in Louisiana and Texas, and President Ronald Reagan s payment in kind (PIK) farm-acreage cuts reduced the fertilizer requirement of American farmers. These farmers are also much in debt and are having trouble selling their products on saturated markets. 

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