Mineral Resources of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 - Digital images |
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Page 349 - Portland cement is the product obtained by finely pulverizing clinker produced by calcining to incipient fusion an intimate and properly proportioned mixture of argillaceous and calcareous materials, with no additions subsequent to calcination excepting water and calcined or uncalcined gypsum.
Page 180 - ... mica plates, and built-up mica, and all manufactures of mica or of which mica is the component material of chief value, by whatever name known, and to whatever use applied, and whether or not named, described, or provided for elsewhere in this Act, 40 per centum ad valorem; waste, scrap, and ground mica, 20 per centum ad valorem.
Page 71 - The market for the bulk of the fluorspar sold in the United States depends on the steel industry and the demand fluctuates with the rise and fall in the production of steel.
Page 183 - Silica (quartz) as discussed in this chapter is used for many purposes, principally in the manufacture of pottery, paints, and scouring soaps, as a wood filler, as a polisher, and in metallurgical and chemical processes. In the pottery industry, where it is generally called flint, silica is used in the body of the ware to diminish shrinkage and is also used in glazes. Silica for use in pottery should contain less than 0.5 per cent of iron-bearing minerals. Manufacturers of paint use considerable...
Page 702 - ... which on being subjected to distillation yield in the portion distilling below one hundred and ninety degrees centigrade a quantity of tar acids equal to or more than 5 per centum of the original distillate...
Page 180 - Mica, unmanufactured, valued at not above 15 cents per pound, 4 cents per pound; valued above 15 cents per pound, 25 per centum ad valorem; mica, cut or trimmed, and mica splittings, 30 per centum ad valorem...
Page 169 - Chicago, 111. Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, La. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, 26 Broadway, New York, NY Standard Oil Co. of New York, 26 Broadway, New York, NY Standard Oil Co.
Page 380 - Provided, That if any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government imposes a duty on any article specified in this paragraph, when imported from the United States, an equal duty shall be imposed upon such article coming into the United States from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government] . Par.
Page 360 - ... if a company has establishments at different places its mill or group of mills at each place is counted as a plant. In the table by districts the statistics are for groups of States, or parts of States, that are geographically and commercially related.
Page 110 - The effect of heat upon the availability of the phosphorus in basic phosphate rock: Maryland Agrie.