Records of the Geological Survey of India, Volume 48, Parts 3-4

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Government of India, 1917 - Geology
Includes the "Annual report of the Geological Survey of India," 1867-

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Page 180 - Pt. 2, 1876 (price 3 Rs.) : Salt-region of Kohat, Trans-Indus. Vol. XII. Pt. 1, 1877 (price 3 Rs.) : South Mahratta Country : Pt. 2,
Page 96 - Vol. Vol. Vol. Vol. Vol. Vol. Vol. IX X XI XII XIII XIV. XV.
Page 136 - and matte were also accumulated. The coke used in reduction came from the Plean colliery in Scotland. During this year active developments took place at the mines. The Dead Chinaman Tunnel, which eventually was to reveal the great Chinaman ore body, was cleaned out and cut down to a workable size, to 324 feet in
Page 129 - of silver per ton. In 1910-11, the permanent way of the railroad was at last in good order. The vertical shaft was equipped with surface plant and enlarged. It has two hoisting compartments, a ladder and a pump way. Winding and steam plant were provided for the inclined shaft which was ventilated by two fans driven by a
Page 126 - of the country to the north and north-east is most striking in a land clothed for the most part in primeval forest. It is due to ' several causes, the destruction of the timber for fuel supply of the smelters, the. action of the acid fumes in the
Page 128 - During the first two months the "usual initial troubles were experienced, due mainly to the difficulty of obtaining suitable fluxes, but by the end of 1909, 12,762 tons of slag and ore were treated, of which 11,850 tons were Chinese slag from Bawdwin averaging
Page 128 - months it improved to 93 per cent. The total silver content of the slag and ore treated was 27,355 ozs. and the total silver content of the lead bullion produced amounted by assay to 26,398 ozs., or a recovery of
Page 129 - ozs. of silver per ton were railed to the smelters at Mandalay. The smelters treated 67,888 tons of ore and fluxes during the period under report and produced 16,337 tons of lead, which averaged £12-19 per ton, and
Page 138 - added to enable the fine slag and ore to be desulphurized before going into the blast furnaces. Additions were made to the refinery and 3,132 tons of refined lead were sold in Rangoon. In 1913-14 ending June
Page 104 - but the few angular measurements I have yet been able to make indicate that the mineral is either orthorhombic or triclinic, more probably the latter, and in either case very closely approaching the tetragonal form.

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