Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Teil 6

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898
 

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Seite 13 - The figures of exports are from the Statistical Abstract of the United States, published by the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department.
Seite 10 - INCLUSIVE. In the following table will be found a statement of the production of crude petroleum in the United States from the beginning of production...
Seite 665 - Data, a peak given as 2,500 meters in height, lying in latitude 16° 53', longitude 120° 58' east of Greenwich or 124° 38' east of Madrid. The range of which data forms one peak trends due north to Cape Lacay-Lacay and forms a boundary for all the provinces infringing upon it. Data itself lies in the Province of Lepanto. In this range copper ore has been smelted by the natives from time immemorial, and before Magellan discovered the Philippines. The process is a complicated one, based on the same...
Seite 665 - Cebu, and Bohol are reported to contain gold, but no exact data are accessible. At the south end of the small island of Panaon, which is just to the south of Leyte, there are gold-quartz veins, one of which has been worked to some extent.
Seite 665 - It consists in alternate partial roasting and reduction to "matte" and eventually to black copper. It is generally believed that this process must have been introduced from China or Japan. It is practiced only by one peculiar tribe of natives, the Igorrotes, who are remarkable in many ways.
Seite 114 - ... between the capital, an Indian village sank suddenly, and was immediately replaced by a small lake of pitch, to the great terror of the inhabitants.
Seite 662 - The distribution of each mineral or metal may now be sketched in somewhat greater detail. In many cases the information given in this abstract is exhaustive, so far as the available material is concerned. The coal fields of Cebu, however, have been studied in some detail by Mr.
Seite 51 - Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. June. July. Ang. Sept. Oct. Nov. Deo.
Seite 665 - Mindanao there are two known gold-bearing districts. One of these is in the province of Surigao, where Placer and other townships show gravels and veins. The second district is in the province of Misamis. Near the settlement of...
Seite 388 - Most kaolins and other high-grade clays consist only of kaolinite, quartz and feldspar, the kaolinite forming the finest particles of the mass, while the balance is quartz, feldspar and perhaps some mica. The finest particles are known as the clay substance, which may be looked on as having the properties of kaolinite, for the latter is present in it in such a large excess.

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