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Minerals

Here are entered works on the geochemical or geological aspects of naturally formed inorganic and organic compounds. Works on the potential economic value of minerals or the technical aspects of locating and removing them from the earth are entered under Mines and mineral resources. Works on the industries based on the extraction, processing, and commercialization of minerals are entered under Mineral industries.

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• Minerals -- Therapeutic use
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• Arsenate minerals
• Borate minerals
• Carbonate minerals
• Fluorescent minerals
• Halide minerals
• Heavy minerals
• Hydroxide minerals
• Mineralogical museums
• Native element minerals
• Nitrate minerals
• Ores
• Oxide minerals
• Phosphate minerals
• Precious stones
• Pseudomorphs
• Rare earths
• Rock-forming minerals
• Silicate minerals
• Sulfate minerals
• Sulfide minerals
• Tungstate minerals
• Vanadate minerals

• Minerals of Arkansas. (State Bureau of Mines, Manufactures, and Agriculture, 1925), by Manufactures Arkansas. Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Separation of cyanite and mica from quartz, feldspar, and other gangue minerals of a mica schist (United States Bureau of Mines, 1931), by F. F. Hintze, L. H. Lange, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress report - metallurgical division. [Part] I., Mineral physics studies ([U.S. Dept. of Commerce], Bureau of Mines, 1934), by C. E. Wood, C. W. Davis, J. Koster, John Gross, V. H. Gottschalk, R. S. Dean, and United States. Bureau of Mines. Metallurgical Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress report - metallurgical division. [Part] 4., Studies in direct production of iron and steel from ores ([U.S. Dept. of the Interior], Bureau of Mines, 1934), by R. S. Dean and United States. Bureau of Mines. Metallurgical Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Méthode géologique ou traité élémentaire des formations minérales (Impr. déwpartementale, 1810), by J. M. Muthuon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the mineral collections ... (London, 1864), by Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue descriptif de la collection des minéraux du Canada à l'Exposition universelle. (Publié par autorité de la Commission canadienne pour l'exposition, 1900), by Geological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chymie de Sage. (De l'imprimerie de P. de Lormel, ... , 1769), by Balthazar Georges Sage, Johann Gottlob Lehmann, and Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets, together with some few of later date. (E. Moxon, 1844), by Thomas Percy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Smith's hand-book of valuable minerals : What they are! What they look like! Where to look for them! ([Frederick H. Smith], 1895), by Frederick H Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blowpipe characters of minerals. (Williams & Norgate, 1862), by Aquilla Smith, Robert Henry Scott, and Samuel Haughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elemente der Mineralogie (W. Engelmann, 1864), by Carl Friedrich Naumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Lagerstätten der nutzbaren Mineralien und Gesteine nach Form, Inhalt und Entstehung (F. Enke, 1913), by Franz Beyschlag, J. H. L. Vogt, and Paul Krusch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lehrbuch der Krystallographie und Mineral-Morphologie (Wilhelm Braumüller, 1866), by Albrecht Schrauf (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of new crystal forms of minerals. (New York, 1922), by Herbert P. Whitlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• An elementary commercial geography (D. Appleton and Co., 1902), by Cyrus C. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commercial raw materials : their origin, preparation and uses (The Philadelphia Museums, 1905), by Charles R. Toothaker, B. H. A. Groth, S. F. Aaron, and Philadelphia Museums (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pluto svecicus (Almqvist & Wiksells boktr., 1907), by Carl von Linné and Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Minerals, and how to study them. A book for beginners in mineralogy. (J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.], 1905), by Edward Salisbury Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unit cell of Hodgkinsonite (Sandia Corporation, 1963), by Edward J. Graeber, Abraham Rosenzweig, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Sandia Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evidence for early diagenetic origin ([Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Printing Office, 1995., 1995), by Neil S. Fishman, Isabelle K. Brownfield, Christine E. Turner, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to the mineralogy of the Rocky mountains (G.P.O., 1885), by Whitman Cross, W. F. Hillebrand, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual technical report for April 1, 1952 to March 31, 1953 (Oak Ridge, Tennessee : Technical Information Service ; Washington, D.C. : Available from the Office of Technical Services, Dept. of Commerce, 1953., 1953), by C. Osborne Hutton and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final technical report for May 1, 1951 - June 30, 1953 (Oak Ridge, Tennessee : Technical Information Service ; Washington, D.C. : Available from the Office of Technical Services, Dept. of Commerce, 1953., 1953), by C. Osborne Hutton and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trace elements in water : a bibliography. (U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Water Resources Research, Water Resources Scientific Information Center, 1971), by Water Resources Scientific Information Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public services for the identification of mineral specimens (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1932), by Paul McIntosh Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thermodynamic properties of minerals and related substances at 298.15 K and 1 bar (10⁵ pascals) pressure and at higher temperatures (United States Government Printing Office ;, 1995), by Richard A. Robie and Bruce S. Hemingway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geochemistry, mineralogy, and geochronology of the U.S. Virgin Islands (United States Government Printing Office ;, 1994), by Henry V. Alminas, Robert E. Tucker, Eugene E. Foord, United States Army, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minerals in ... (The Bureau, in the 20th century), by United States. Bureau of Mines. Office of Public Information and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typer och prototyper inom mineralkemien : festskrift till firandet af Berzelii femtioårs-minne (Gernandt, 1898), by August Strindberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preparation of synthetic standard minerals (Los Alamos, New Mexico : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1978., 1978), by C. C. Herrick, R. W. Charles, G. C. Herrick, S. J. Bustamante, B. W. Olinger, E. Arnold Hakkila, R. B. Roof, Haskell Sheinberg, R. E. Cowan, D. E. Hull, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and United States. Department of Energy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skull melting of synthetic minerals / by S. D. Scott, D. E. Hull, and C. C. Herrick. (Los Alamos, New Mexico : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1977., 1977), by S. D. Scott, C. C. Herrick, D. E. Hull, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and United States. Department of Energy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merrihueite, a new alkali-ferromagnesian silicate from the Mez©·o-Madaras chondrite (L.G. Hansom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1965., 1965), by Robert T. Dodd, Ursula B. Marvin, W. Randall Van Schmus, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chemistry in therapeutics (W. R. Huntsman, 1935), by Walter Bryant Guy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Travels in Brazil, in the years 1817-1820 : undertaken by command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824), by Johann Baptist von Spix, Hannibal Evans Lloyd, Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collection of minerals in the American Museum of Natural History (American Museum of Natural History, 1926), by Herbert Percy Whitlock and American Museum of Natural History (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collection of minerals (American Museum of Natural History, 1902), by L. P. Gratacap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paracelsvs of the [brace] chymical transmutation, genealogy and generation [brace] of metals & minerals.: Also, of the urim and thummim of the Jews. With an appendix, of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge. The second part of the mumial treatise. Whereunto is added, philosophical and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymvnd Lvlly; containing, the right and due composition of both elixirs. The admirable and perfect way of making the great stone of the philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England, by the said Raymund Lully, in the time of King Edw. 3. / Translated into English by R. Turner philomathēs. (London : Printed for Rich: Moon at the seven Stars, and Hen: Fletcher at the three gilt Cups in Paul's Church-yard, 1657), by Paracelsus and Robert Turner (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sull'Alpe della Versilia e la sua ricchezza minerale : saggio corografico (fratelli Frediani, 1855), by Emilio Simi, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Paolo Savi (page images at HathiTrust)

• The elements of a new method of chemico-microscopic analysis of rocks and minerals (s.n., 1890), by Emanuel Boricky and N. H. Winchell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Principal deposits of strategic and critical minerals in Arizona (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1992), by Michael B. Sawyer and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minerals of Arkansas. (State Bureau of Mines, Manufactures, and Agriculture, 1925), by Manufactures Arkansas. Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)

• List of Bureau of Mines publications and articles ... with subject and author index. (The Bureau :, 1960), by United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mineral deposits between Lillooet and Prince George (T. Mulvey, 1920), by Leopold Reinecke and Geological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)

• A description of the set of minerals and rocks furnished to California schools by the California Division of Mines and Geology / by Salem J. Rice. (The Division, 1962), by Salem J. Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual technical report for April 1, 1952 to March 31, 1953 (Oak Ridge, Tennessee : Technical Information Service ; Washington, D.C. : Available from the Office of Technical Services, Dept. of Commerce, 1953., 1953), by C. Osborne Hutton and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final technical report for May 1, 1951 - June 30, 1953 (Oak Ridge, Tennessee : Technical Information Service ; Washington, D.C. : Available from the Office of Technical Services, Dept. of Commerce, 1953., 1953), by C. Osborne Hutton and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue descriptif de la collection des minéraux du Canada à l'Exposition universelle. (Publié par autorité de la Commission canadienne pour l'exposition, 1900), by Geological Survey of Canada and Théophile Denis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mineral pigments of Canada (S.E. Dawson, 1906), by C. W. Willimott and Geological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les couleurs minérales du Canada (S.E. Dawson, 1907), by C. W. Willimott and Commission géologique du Canada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die In der Sammlung des mineralogisch-geologischen Instituts der Universität Erlangen enthaltenen Mineralien (mit ausnahme der Silicate) (München, 1896), by Karl August Emil Prässar (page images at HathiTrust)

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