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Nonmetallic minerals

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• Mines and mineral resources

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• Salt deposits

• Minerals, Nonmetallic

• Asphalt: Science and Technology (New York and London: Gordon and Breach, 1962), by Edwin J. Barth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Asphalt: Its Composition, Properties, and Uses (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp.; London: Chapman and Hall, c1961), by Ralph N. Traxler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: A Potential Solution for the Disposal of Transuranic Waste (1996), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)

• An Account of Some Neutral Salts Made with Vegetable Acids, and With the Salt of Amber (London, 1768), by Donald Monro (page images at NIH)

• Mémoire sur la Manière de Préparer, Avec le Moins de Perte Possible, le Sel Fusible d'Urine Blanc, rt Pur, rt l'Acide Phosphorique Parfaitement Transparent (in French; ca. 1783), by Louis-Marie-Joseph-Romain d'Albert d'Ailly Chaulnes (page images at NIH)
• Mineralogia: or, An Account of The Extraordinary Virtues and Manifold Uses of a Mineral Salt, Both In Physic and Surgery, By Land and By Sea (fourth edition; London: Printed by D. Pratt and sold by the author, 1730), by Christopher Packe (page images at NIH)

• Monomeric Acrylic Esters (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1954), by Edward Hollister Riddle (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Turquoise: A Study of its History, Mineralogy, Geology, Ethnology, Archaeology, Mythology, Folklore and Technology (National Academy of Sciences v12 part 2, third memoir; 1915), by Joseph E. Pogue (multiple formats at Google)

• Beiträge zur Kenntnis Einiger Vorwiegend aus Zoogenen Komponenten Aufgebauter Kalksteine (dissertation in German; Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, ca. 1914), by Otto Bernhard von der Osten-Sacken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Instructions for the Manufacture of Saltpetre (1862), by Joseph LeConte (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Discourse of Fire and Salt: Discovering Many Secret Mysteries, As Well Philosophicall, as Theologicall (London: Printed by R. Cotes, 1649), by Blaise de Vigenère, trans. by Edward Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On the Relation Between the Index of Refraction and Concentration of Solutions of Sodium Chloride (University of Chicago physics masters thesis, 1920), by Edward Henry Thomas
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• How to Make Salt from Sea-Water (1862), by John LeConte (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bulletin (Geological Survey of Alabama) (partial serial archives)

• Handbook for the Alaskan Prospector (third printing, 1980), by Ernest N. Wolff, ed. by Richard H. Byrns (PDF with commentary at alaska.edu)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Travels in the Interior of Brazil, Principally Through the Northern Provinces, and the Gold and Diamond Districts, During the Years 1836-1841 (second edition; London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849), by George Gardner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• County Report (partial serial archives)
• California Gold (1933 magazine reprint), by James S. Brown (PDF with commentary at LOC)
• California Copy (Washington: Washington College Press, c1928), by Geo. F. Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of Hungryland: or, California Sketches, by W. S. Walker (HTML at LOC)
• The Resources of California, by John S. Hittell (page images at MOA)
• The Sunset Land, by John Todd (HTML at LOC)
• California '46 to '88 (San Francisco: The Bancroft Co., 1888), by Jacob Wright Harlan
  • PDF with commentary at loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California, by Sim Moak (HTML at LOC)
• Life and Adventures of Col. L. A. Norton, by Lewis Adelbert Norton (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)

• The Dominion of Canada (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1869), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Metal Mining and the Environment (Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, c1999), by Travis Hudson, Frederick D. Fox, and Geoffrey S. Plumlee (PDF at agiweb.org)

• The Hidden Mine (originally published 1896), by Joseph A. Altsheler (HTML at woodwardworks.com)
• Murder in Space (Galaxy novel #23; New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1954), by David V. Reed, illust. by Ed Emshwiller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Lost Mine of the Mono: A Tale of the Sierra Nevada (New York: Cochrane Pub. Co., 1909), by Charles Herman Bruno Klette (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Soldiers of Fortune (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece page missing

• Bulletin (Geological Survey of Georgia) (partial serial archives)

• Tin Peaks and Silver Streams: A Memoir (1995), by Sheldon Wimpfen
  • HTML at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at bureauofmines.com

• Report on the Mines Known in the Eastern Division of Hayti, and the Facilities of Working Them (London: Printed for Ridgway, Booth, and Wilson, 1825), by William Walton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Explorations and Adventures in Honduras: Comprising Sketches of Travel in the Gold Regions of Olancho, and a Review of the History and General Resources of Central America (New York: Harper and Bros., 1857), by William V. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India (partial serial archives)

• Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana, Made During the Year 1869, by Indiana Geological Survey (illustrated HTML at Indiana)

• The University Geological Survey of Kansas (9 volumes; 1896-1908), by Kansas Geological Survey, contrib. by Erasmus Haworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Recollections, 1848-1931 (Santa Barbara, CA: Schauer Printing Studio, 1933), by Alexander Baring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mexico in 1827 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by H. G. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tin Peaks and Silver Streams: A Memoir (1995), by Sheldon Wimpfen
  • HTML at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at bureauofmines.com

• Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Report (full serial archives)

• Bulletin (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology) (partial serial archives)

• Bulletin (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology) (partial serial archives)
• Geology and Mining Series (University of Nevada) (partial serial archives)
• Guide to Virginia City, Nevada, and the Comstock Lode Area, Wherein Are Described Points of Interest in the History of Mining the Lode (Sausalito, CA: Pages of History, c1959), by Pages of History (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New Hampshire Mines and Minerals Localities (second edition; Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Museum, 1960), by Philip Morrill (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.