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Morse T 1979 Handbook of Organic Additives for Use in Ceramic Body Formuiation (Butte, MA Montana Energy and MHD Research and Deveiopment institute)... 

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Hard red winter (HRW) is an important bread wheat that accounts for more than 40% of the United States wheat crop and wheat exports. This fall-seeded wheat is produced in the Great Plains, which extend from the Mississippi River west to the Rocky Mountains, and from the Dakotas and Montana south to Texas. Significant quantities are also produced in California. HRW has moderately high protein content, usually averaging 11—12%, and good milling and baking characteristics. 

T. Morse, Handbook of Organic Additivesfor Use in Ceramic Bocf Formulation, Montana Energy and MHD Research and Development Institute, Inc., Butte, Mont., 1979. 

In the United States, about 90% of gold production originates from ores and placer deposits. The remainder is recovered primarily as a by-product of the refining of base metals, chiefly copper. The principal gold producing states are Nevada (60%) and Califomia (10%) followed by Montana, Utah, S. Dakota, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico (7). 

F. Demeulenaere and co-workers, Proc. Int/ Workshop (KojalSoc. Med.) Crans-Montana, Swit2edand, 135—141 (1981). 

Most (88%) lead mined in the United States comes from eight mines in Missouri. The rest comes from 11 mines in Colorado, Idaho, Montana,... 

North America.. In the United States, lignite deposits are located in the northern Great Plains and in the Gulf states. Subbituminous coal is found along the Rocky Mountains. The western half of North Dakota has about 74% of the nation s resources, Montana 23%, Texas 2%, and Alabama and South Dakota about 0.5% each. The lignite resources to 914 m represent 28% of the total toimage of all coal deposits in the United States. The lower cost and low sulfur content have contributed to rapid growth in production. 

The lignite deposits of North Dakota and Montana extend into Canada as far as Saskatchewan. Canadian deposits are also located in Alberta, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Ontario, and Manitoba. Production by open-cast mining, ca3.5 x 10 t in 1975, was 10.8 x 10 t in 1989. 

Monta.n Wax. An important product of the direct extractive treatment of lignitic coals is montan wax [8002-53-7]. The term montan wax or Bergwachs refers strictiy to the material obtained by solvent extraction of suitable German brown coals. The generic term for similar materials is montana wax. The small quantities made outside Germany are usually referred to as montan, prefixed by the country of origin (see Waxes). 

Eastern Montana, U.S. Geol. Survey TEI-61, 29, U.S. Technical Information Service, Oak Ridge, Term., 1950. 

Fig. 9. Measured coal-fired flow faciUty (CFFF) NO emissions where ( ) represents high sulfur coal, (e) low sulfur coal, (A) low sulfur coal having K2/S = 1.15, and ( ) LMF5-G. A, Illinois No. 6 coal (3% S) B, Montana Rosebud coal (1% S), and the NSPS range is between the dotted lines. To...

The basic seed processing plant design is based on 70% removal of the sulfur contained in the coal used (Montana Rosebud), which satisfies NSPS requirements. Virtually complete sulfur removal appears to be feasible and can be considered as a design alternative to minimize potential corrosion problems related to sulfur in the gas. The estimated reduction in plant performance for complete removal is on the order of 1/4 percentage point. The size of the seed processing plant would have to be increased by roughly 40% but the corresponding additional cost appears tolerable. The constmction time for the 500 MW plant is estimated to be ca five years. 

Conceptual designs of two repowered existing coal-fired plants in the United States, the Montana Power Company s Corette plant in Billings, Montana, and Gulf Power s Schofi plant, in Sneads, Florida are described in References 150 and 151. 

The main growing areas for badey are North Dakota, Montana, eastern South Dakota, and western Minnesota six-row badey is predominant. Increasingly significant areas are California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Colorado, where predominandy two-row badey is produced. Less than one-half of the badey grown in the United States is processed by the malt industry the remainder is used as animal feed, and ca 80% of the badey used by the malting industry is the six-tow variety (2—5) (see Feeds and feed additives, pet foods). 

As of the mid-1990s all commercial phosphoms is manufactured at a few sites around the world. Significant production occurs in Idaho and Montana in the United States, in the Netherlands, in Kazakstan, and in China smaller production occurs in Prance, Russia, and India. A large amount of furnace capacity has been shut down worldwide because of cost pressure from electric power costs, phosphate derived from purified wet acid, and detergent phosphate bans legislated in the Western World. However, as of late 1995, additional production is stiU being brought on line in China. 

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The most significant PGM deposit in the United States is at Stillwater, Montana, where PGMs are mined as the primary product. The grade has been estimated as between 13 and 22 g/1, having a platinum—palladium ratio of 1 3.5. The first ore was extracted from Stillwater in 1987 and full production of 1000 t/d was reached in 1990. 

Mexico, the world s leading producer of silver since the Spanish conquest, obtains virtually its entire silver production from lead—2inc mines in the central cordillera. Mexico retained its dominance in silver production until the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859. Discoveries in Colorado, Ari2ona, and Montana placed the United States as the world s top silver producer from 1871 until 1900. As these mines played out, Mexico s vast resources returned it to its former position of dominance. 

Talc of metasedimentary origin is formed by hydrothermal alteration of a dolomitic host rock by a silica-containing fluid. This type of deposit is typical of Montana and AustraUa. It is usually quite pure with talc content of 90 to 98% and often very white as well. Dolomite [17069-72-6], CaMg(C02)2, is the most common accessory mineral. The fourth type is of metamorphic origin, where a siUcaceous dolostone is first converted to tremolite [14567-73-8] or actinohte [13768-00-8] and then partially converted to talc. The Balmat, New York, and Death Valley, California, deposits are of this type. Tremolite, dolomite, and serpentine are common accessory minerals. This type of talc deposit has a variable talc content (30—80%), but is usually white and often commercially exploited because of the properties of its accessory minerals rather than the talc. 

According to statistics collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (3), U.S. production of cmde talc in 1995 was 1,050,000 metric tons. Montana, Texas, Vermont, and New York were the principal producing U.S. states. Worldwide production was estimated to be 5,845,000 t. China, having 2,400,000 t, was the largest producer in the world after China and the United States, Finland, India, Brazil, France, Italy, and Canada are the next principal producers. World production of talc in 1994 is Hsted in Table 1. 

The value of crude ore produced ia the United States was estimated to average 32.50/t in 1994. Product pricing was reported to vary from 99/t for New York State 200-mesh paint grade to 220/t for ultrafine Montana paint grade. Cosmetic grades were quoted at 263/t. 

Talc products are also characterized by their crystallinity or relative platiness. Mycrocrystalline talc products typical of Montana and AustraUa tend to have very fine natural grain sizes and thus are ea sily milled to very fine products of higher surface area (10—20 m /g). Macrocrystalline talc ores... 

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