Author: Hasan H. MumcuPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Study of Various Coal Mines in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming
Author: Hasan H. MumcuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
An Economic Study of the Development of Utah's Coal Resources
Author: Utah. Committee to Study Operations of State GovernmentPublisher:
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Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Western Energy
Author: John W. GreenRegulating Danger
Author: James WhitesidePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803247529
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From the 1880s to the 1980s more than eight thousand workers died in the coal mines of the Rocky Mountain states. Sometimes they died by the dozens in fiery explosions, but more often they died alone, crushed by collapsing roofs or runaway mine cars. Many old-timers in coal-mining communities and even some historians haveøblamed the high fatality rate on ruthless coal barons exploiting miners in the single-minded pursuit of profit. The coal industry preferred to blame careless miners. James Whiteside looks beyond those charges in seeking to explain why the western coal mines were (and, to some degree, still are) dangerous and why territorial, state, and federal laws failed for so long to make them safer. Regulating Danger is the first extended study of the coal-mining industry in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. It exceeds the scope of traditional labor history in focusing on working conditions and the problems of workers instead of unions and strikes. After examining the inherent physical dangers of the work, Whiteside shows how the interplay of economic, social, and technological forces created an envi-ronment of death in the western coal mines. He goes on to discuss evolving industrial and political attitudes toward issues of responsibility for mine safety and government regulation and the fundamental changes in the industry that brought about safer working conditions.
Coal Resources of Southwestern Utah
Author: Lucius Trowbridge GrosePublisher:
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Category : Aluminum ores
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This Bureau of Mines report presents results of a detailed study of water usage in the Wyoming mineral industry, along with projection for the future. In 1964, the mineral industries of Wyoming used 20 billion gallons of new water, nearly all self-supplied, and reused 72 billion gallons, a total usage of 92 billion gallons. Consumption amounted to 2.8 billion gallons. About one-half of the billion gallons of new water was obtained from surface sources and the rest from ground water. Reported costs, covering power and maintenance, for the self-supplied new water at mineral industry operations ranged from less than 1 cent to 20 cents per thousand gallons and averaged 8 cents. At one mineral-related operation, water was hauled by truck to supplement a well supply. The cost was $2.00 per thousand gallons delivered. However, the supplemental requirement was only 10 gpm. Cost figures for the recirculation of water, covering power and maintenance, averaged 2 cents. In terms of water usage, the value of product for the entire industry was $25 per thousand gallons of new water intake and about $180 per thousand gallons consumed. The study revealed that Wyoming has a water deficiency but that the shortage is less severe than in the arid Southwest. Projection of the water needs of the Wyoming mineral industries indicates that the demand for new water will increase from the 20 billion gallons used in 1964 to 25 billion gallons in 1980, a 25-percent increase. The projected new-water requirement for the year 2000 is 40 billion gallons, a 100-percent increase compared with the 1964 figure.
Coal-associated Minerals of the United States
Author: West Virginia University. Coal Research BureauPublisher:
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Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bulletin - Utah Geological and Mineral Survey
Author: Summary of the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau of Land Management National Coal-Hydrology Program, 1974-84
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
See journals under US Geological survey. Prof. paper 1464.
Industrializing the Rockies
Author: David A. WolffPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In "Industrializing the Rockies," David A. Wolff places the deadly conflicts and strikes as well as the racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West.
Coal
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description