In addition to Regional and Mineral Resources Offices, the Bureau of Mines maintains research centers and other field installations where technical questions are answered, literature searches are performed, and current research and development data are compiled on request. Four of these centers have specialized collections of data. The Metallurgy Research Center at Albany, Ore., has a collection of information on zirconium and hafnium. The Laramie, Wyo., Petroleum Research Center has a file of crude oil analyses that are available for study or copy and maintains a complete record of the Bureau's shale oil and oil shale work; the Center also collects and correlates data on sulfur and nitrogen compounds in petroleum in addition to conducting research on petroleum extraction, processing, and utilization. The Bartlesville, Okla., Petroleum Research Center collects and indexes information relating to the production, chemistry, and thermodynamics of petroleum and natural gas. The Helium Research Center at Amarillo, Tex., maintains a collection of basic data for use in the design and operation of helium plants. Some field offices perform special testing services as described under RELATED SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION ACTIVITIES on page 26. The location of each Bureau of Mines field installation, as of April 1962, is as follows (field offices in italics are administered by the Research Center directly above): Metallurgy Research Albany Metallurgy Research Center College Park Metallurgy Research Center Norris Metallurgy Research Laboratory Minneapolis Metallurgy Research Center Pittsburgh Metallurgy Research Laboratory Reno Metallurgy Research Center Reno, Nev. Boulder City Metallurgy Research Laboratory Berkeley Thermodynamics Laboratory Rolla Metallurgy Research Center Salt Lake City Metallurgy Research Center Tucson Metallurgy Research Laboratory Tuscaloosa Metallurgy Research Center Mining Research Minneapolis Mining Research Center Rolla Office of Mining Research Denver Mining Research Center Spokane Office of Mining Research Reno Office of Mining Research Applied Physics Research Laboratory Anthracite Research Anthracite Research Center Schuylkill Haven, Pa. Coal Research Morgantown Coal Research Center Pittsburgh Coal Research Center Denver Coal Research Center Grand Forks Lignite Research Laboratory Seattle Coal Research Laboratory Explosives Research Explosives Research Laboratory Petroleum Research Morgantown Petroleum Research Laboratory Bartlesville Petroleum Research Center Field Office Field Office Wichita Falls, Tex. Laramie Petroleum Research Center Rifle Oil Shale Project 1 San Francisco Petroleum Research Laboratory San Francisco, Calif. Helium Research Helium Research Center Amarillo, Tex. Health and Safety Health and Safety Research and Testing Center Pittsburgh, Pa. RELATED SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION Three Bureau of Mines activities supplement its basic scientific information program: 1) the foreign activities program, 2) the distribution by the Bureau of industry-sponsored motion pictures, and 3) the Bureau's testing and inspection services. Foreign Activities Program The Division of Foreign Activities is concerned with the international phases of the Bureau's work. During fiscal 1960, 13 Bureau technologists conducted technical assistance projects in foreign countries, and 3 completed short-term assignments in Latin America, all under a program sponsored and financed by the International Cooperation Administration. During the same period, 19 foreign technicians completed their training at Bureau installations, and 13 were still in training at the end of the fiscal year. The foreign factfinding services of the Bureau of Mines provide information on mineral developments abroad and help to evaluate problems of domestic mineral industries arising from world surpluses. Eighteen studies on foreign minerals of interest to domestic producers and consumers were published during fiscal 1960 in response to inquiries from other Government agencies and the public. Foreign statistical tabulations comprise more than 10 percent of Volumes I and II of the Bureau's Minerals Yearbook for fiscal 1960. In cooperation with the National Science Foundation, Bureau of Mines representatives have investigated and sampled the mineral and coal deposits of Antarctica. State Department mineral attachés assigned to some U.S. embassies and consulates are often drawn from the Bureau's staff. Industry-Sponsored Motion Pictures The Bureau of Mines produces and distributes motion picture films dealing with the scientific, technologic, and economic aspects of its work. Films are circulated free of charge to educational institutions, industrial concerns, engineering and 1 Maintained in standby condition as a pilot plant for research on oil shale processing. scientific societies, civic associations, churches, libraries, and other responsible organizations. There are two types of films-those depicting the mining, metallurgical, and manufacturing operations relating to specific mineral commodities such as copper, uranium, lead, bituminous coal, and sulfur, and films devoted to the natural resources of various States with emphasis on mineral resources. More than 200,000 showings of these films are given annually before a combined audience of between 11 and 12 million viewers. All Bureau of Mines films are produced under the direction of the Office of Mineral Reports. Production costs are paid by cooperating industrial concerns but films are free from trade names and other advertising material. A catalog is available from Graphic Services, Bureau of Mines, 4800 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh 13, Pa., from which office the films are distributed. Certain films are also available from local distribution centers in the continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii. New films are announced in the Bureau's Monthly List (see ANNOUNCEMENT OF BUREAU PUBLICATIONS, page 23). Testing and Inspection Services Five organizational units of the Bureau of Mines provide testing and inspection services to other Government agencies on request, incident to their primary functions. THE INDUSTRIAL WATER LABORATORY at the Bureau's Metallurgy Research Center, College Park, Md., analyzes feed and boiler water for Government heating plants and makes recommendations for chemical treatment to prevent scale, corrosion, and caustic embrittlement. The following units, all located at the Bureau of Mines installation, 4800 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh 13, Pa., provide testing and inspection services in their fields of specialization as noted: EXPLOSIVES RESEARCH LABORATORY-makes special tests of explosives, hazardous chemicals. pyrotechnics, etc. FUEL INSPECTION SERVICE-inspects coal samples in connection with purchase and use by all Government heating and power plants. ANALYSIS SECTION-makes chemical and physical tests and analyses of coal, lubricants, oils, and waxes. BRANCH OF ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL TESTING-tests electrical and mechanical equipment, including diesel assemblies, for safe use in explosive atmospheres. OFFICE OF OIL AND GAS OFFICE OF MINERALS MOBILIZATION OFFICE OF GEOGRAPHY OFFICE OF COAL RESEARCH THE OFFICE OF OIL AND GAS HE Office of Oil and Gas is a focal point for petroleum and gas information in the Federal Government. The Office helps to coordinate and unify oil and gas policies and related administrative activities of all Federal agencies and is the principal channel of communication between the Government and the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, State regulatory bodies, and the petroleum and gas industries. It also provides staff services and technical guidance in carrying out petroleum and gas activities in international petroleum programs in which the United States participates. The Office of Oil and Gas has responsibilities in civil defense and defense mobilization planning for the procurement, storage, transportation, and distribution of petroleum and gas supplies to meet partial or full mobilization requirements. Under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, it is responsible for maintaining adequate oil and gas supplies and facilities for civilian, industrial, and military needs. INFORMATION ON CURRENT ACTIVITIES. Requests for information on current activities and for advice and assistance on petroleum and gas matters should be addressed to: Director, Office of Oil and Gas Current activities are described briefly in the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, available from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. ($1.50). Information SUBJECT FIELDS OF INFORMATION. collected by the Office of Oil and Gas is concentrated in the following subject areas: Exploration and production of petroleum and gas; transportation of crude oil or finished products by pipeline, tanker, barge, tank car, or tank truck; oilfield bulk and deepwater terminal facilities; refining of crude oil for the manufacture of gasoline, kerosene, distillates, diesel fuel, lubricating oils, greases, petrochemicals, etc.; transmission and distribution of natural and manufactured gas by large-volume trunk pipelines. PUBLICATIONS. Most Office of Oil and Gas publications are security-classified and are made. available only on a need-to-know basis. They are evaluations of resources of the United States and friendly foreign nations, providing information on which to base short-term and long-range petroleum and gas supply-demand planning under peacetime, emergency, and wartime conditions. OFFICE OF MINERALS MOBILIZATION HE Office of Minerals Mobilization was es tablished in the Department of the Interior under authority of the Defense Production Act of PUBLICATIONS: Reports prepared by the Office of Minerals Mobilization are supply-evaluation or mobilization-base studies. Reevaluations of certain materials are made periodically for the Office of Emergency Planning. Studies made in fiscal 1960 involved chrysotile asbestos, celestite, oxygen-free copper, iron ore, antimony, asbestos disposal, and high-temperature materials. Most of the reports produced by the Office of Minerals Mobilization are classified for security reasons. They are made available on a need-to-know basis only. A pamphlet on disaster control and survival-An Alert to the Minerals Industry-is available without charge from the Office at the above address. THE OFFICE OF GEOGRAPHY HE Office of Geography, established in 1947, has administrative and research responsibilities in the field of foreign geographical nomenclature. The Office provides research and staff services to the interdepartmental Board on Geographic Names. This Board is composed of one representative each from the Interior, Commerce, Agriculture, Air Force, Army, Navy, State, and Post Office Departments and one representative each from the Government Printing Office, the Library of Congress, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Conjointly with the Secretary of the Interior, it is the authority for standardizing geographical names used in Federal publications and official maps. The Director of the Office of Geography is ex officio the Executive Secretary of the Board, and the records of the Board and its committees are maintained by the Office. During the fiscal year 1960, more than 200,000 names in European and Asiatic countries were standardized by the Board, and gazetteers were prepared containing more than 250,000 new entries for Turkey, Rumania, Ceylon, the Federal Republic of Germany, and East Berlin. The Office of Geography conducts studies on nomenclature source materials and policy problems of foreign areas for use in name-standardization procedures. It is involved in research on typeclassification of geographic features, the meaning of generic parts of names, and the definition of terms used to designate the features to which names are applied. The Office also evaluates, and sometimes prepares, systems for rendering names in non-Roman alphabets into Roman letters. SUBJECTS FIELDS OF INFORMATION. The work of the Office of Geography is concentrated in the following subject areas: Etymology of place names when necessary to establish identity of incompletely written forms; definition of terms; standardization of geographic names; systems for romanization of names from non-Roman alphabets; type classification of geographic features; evaluation of nomenclature source materials. INFORMATION ON CURRENT ACTIVITIES. Requests for information on the current activities of the Office of Geography should be addressed to: Director, Office of Geography U.S. Department of the Interior A brief description of current activities is contained in the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. ($1.50). PUBLICATIONS. The gazetteers issued by the Office of Geography are compilations of official standard names approved by the Board on Geographic Names and the Secretary of the Interior. They are under continual revision. Supplements are issued when substantial changes occur, and revised editions are prepared every 10 years for titles having a large number of supplements. Gazetteers are made available by the Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., at prices varying from 25 cents to $5.00. New gazetteers are announced in the Government Printing Office Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications ($3.00 per year). The Government Printing Office also distributes, without charge, Price List 53 (Maps, Engineering, Surveying), which contains a list of titles and prices of gazetteers. The Office of Geography issues a free list of available titles, giving dates of issue, number of entries, and prices. More than 50 gazetteers had been published as of 1960. Gazetteers for Yugoslavia, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and Denmark were being prepared for publication in 1961. Of current interest to scientists is the Gazetteer on Antarctica ($2.25), containing a descriptive paragraph on each place name, the exact location, type of place, how named, and for whom. The Office of Geography also publishes tables of transliteration systems for Persian, Russian, Bulgarian, Thai, and Arabic. These tables are available from the Director of the Office of Geography without charge. From time to time scientific articles by the staff members of the Office appear in professional journals such as the Geographical Review, and the Professional Geographer. A list of papers written by staff members is available without charge upon request from the Office. to the Nation's economy through better and more efficient methods of mining, preparation, and utilization of coal. The Office maintains no laboratories or research facilities of its own, but sponsors research and development through the medium of contracts with recognized groups and organizations which include, but are not necessarily limited to, industry, coal trade associations, coal research associations, educational institutions, and State and local government agencies. Although basic research may be required in certain areas related to specific phases of a contemplated project, the Office of Coal Research plans to concentrate on applied research and on the development of useful materials, systems, methods, precedures, and devices, including the design and development of prototypes. Emphasis is on projects that can be developed to the point of commercial realization in the shortest possible time. In this sense, the program is characterized by an immediacy which exceeds that of a normal program of applied research. SUBJECT FIELDS OF INFORMATION: Mining, preparation, and utilization of coal; increased tonnage output at the mine; efficient, inexpensive methods of transporting coal to the consumer; new products from coal and associated materials (refuse, chemicals, and minerals within-or adjacent to-raw coal products); design and development of prototype devices and materials. INFORMATION ON RESEARCH IN PROGRESS. Information relative to current research activities. can be obtained by writing to: Office of Coal Research Agency contractors may make information on current research available through the presentation of papers at conventions or other scientific and technical meetings. Research projects suggested by the Office of Coal Research are described in the U.S. Department of Commerce publication, Commerce Business Daily (Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., $20.00 per year); members of industrial, educational, and trade groups, and other interested individuals are invited to submit proposals for the research projects described in this publication directly to the Office of Coal Research. PUBLICATIONS. Publications issued by the Office of Coal Research and its contractors, reporting |