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• Test apparatus for measuring sound power levels of drills / ([Pittsburgh, Pa.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1987]), by William W. Aljoe, R. C. Bartholomae, and Robert R. Stein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightweight fiberglass feed leg for hand-held pneumatic percussion rock drills / (Pittsburgh, Pa. (P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh 15236) : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1985), by Ellsworth R. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadian General Electric Co., Ltd., Mining Dept., no. 101 [electronic resource] : electric percussion drills. ([Toronto? : s.n., 1894?]), by Canadian General Electric Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pointers for Rock-Drillers (New York : Ingersoll-Rand Company, [1920?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Department of the Interior, Denver, Colorado ([Atlanta, Ga.] : Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; [Springfield, Va.] : [National Technical Information Service, distributor], [2004]), by Steven A Lee and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. (Cape Town : Cape Times, 1903), by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Parliament. Legislative Council. Select Committee on the System of Deep Well Boring and the Use of Diamond Drills (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rock drilling / (Philadelphia, Pa. : Work Projects Administration, National Research Project in cooperation with Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1940]), by C. E. Nighman, O. E. Kiessling, United States Bureau of Mines, and National Research Project on Reemployment Opportunities and Recent Changes in Industrial Techniques (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of injuries involving jackleg rock drills underground, 1973-1974 / (Washington : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration, 1975), by Richard H. Oitto and United States. Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Machines à percer couper, & abattre les noches; emploi de la nitroglycerine. ([St. Étienne, 1867]), by Ernest Javal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigations of stresses in a drill bit and rock under static loads / ([Washington] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1963]), by Albert J. Rambosek, James B. Williams, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Drillability studies : impregnated diamond bits / ([Washington, D.C.] : Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1966), by James Paone, Dick Madson, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rock drills, mining and quarrying machinery : rock drills, stone channeling machines, quarry bars, gadders, coal cutters / (New York : The Company, 1903), by Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Select committee on water-boring and diamond drills. (In Continuation of C.1.-1903.) (Cape Town, Cape Times Limited, 1904), by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Parliament. Legislative Council. Select commitee on water-boring and diamond drills, James Douglas Logan, and Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Parliament (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber gesteinsbohrmaschinen, ([Stockholm] Verlag des verfassers, 1869), by Friedrich Moritz Stapff (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on explosive compounds, machine rock drills and blasting. (New York, J. Wiley & sons, 1883), by Henry S. Drinker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rock drills; design, construction, and use, (New York [etc.] McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1910), by Eustace M. Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tunneling, explosive compounds & rock drills ... comprising a review of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II to the present time. (New York , J. Wiley, 1882, c1878), by Henry S. Drinker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The excavation of rock by machinery. Catalogue no. 51, 1903 ... Rock drills and stone channeling machines, ([New York, Pittsburg, Chasmar-Winchell Press, c1903]), by Sullivan Machinery Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Giving the details of practical tunnel work; the constituents and properties of modern explosive compounds; the principles of blasting; the history of ... machine rock-drilling; and detailed descriptions of the various rock-drills and air-compressors in use ... tunneling from the reign of Rameses II. to the present time. (New York, J. Wiley & Sons, 1888), by Henry S. Drinker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills ... Also, descriptions of the European and American systems ... with tables giving dimensions, cost, and leading data relating to the construction of about two thousand tunnels, compiled from notes furnished by engineers and railroad companies in North and South America, Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, comprising a review of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II to the present time. Illustrated with ... cuts set in the text and twenty large folding plates. (New York, J. Wiley & sons, 1882), by Henry S. Drinker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Also, descriptions of the European and American systems, with tables giving the dimensions, cost, and leading data relating to the construction of about two thousand tunnels, compiled from notes furnished by engineers and railroad companies in North and South America, Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, comprising a review of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II to the present time. (New York, John Wiley, 1893), by Henry S. Drinker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Giving the details of practical tunnel work; the constituents and properties of modern explosive compounds; the principles of blasting; the history of ... machine rock-drilling; and detailed descriptions of the various rock-drills and air-compressors in use ... with a history of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II. to the present time. (New York, J. Wiley, 1878), by Henry S. Drinker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rock drilling tests in the tri-state mining district /, by C. R. Forbes and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Energetics of percussive drills / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1969]), by William E. Bruce, James Paone, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Accuracy in estimating metal content and tonnage of an ore body from diamond-drill-hole data / ([[Washington, D.C.] : Bureau of Mines, [1964]), by George S. Koch and Richard F. Link (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bit wear-flat temperature as a function of depth of cut and speed / (Pittsburgh, Pa. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1987), by Carl F. Wingquist and Bruce D. Hanson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of organic additives on impregnated diamond drilling / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1971]), by Kelly C. Strebig, Clifford W. Schultz, A. Aly Selim, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigations of stresses in a drill bit and rock under static loads / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1963]), by Albert J. Rambosek and James B. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation of dust dissemination to water flow through rock drills / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1938), by Carlton E. Brown and H. H. Schrenk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress report no. 3 on investigation of detachable rock-drill bits / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1937), by McHenry Mosier and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress report no. 2 on investigation of detachable rock-drill bits / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1936), by McHenry Mosier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamond drilling blast holes, Balmat Mine, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1947), by McHenry Mosier and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shaft sinking by diamond drilling, Bellefonte mine, National Gypsum Co., Centre County, Pa. / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1948]), by McHenry Mosier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightweight fiberglass feed leg for hand-held pneumatic percussion rock drills / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1985), by Ellsworth R. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Test apparatus for measuring sound power levels of drills / ([Pittsburgh, Pa.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1987]), by William W. Aljoe, R. C. Bartholomae, and Robert R. Stein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Churn-drill performance / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1947), by J. R. Thoenen and E. J. Lintner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noise reduction of a pneumatic rock drill / ([Pittsburgh] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1975]), by A. Visnapuu, J. W. Jensen, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zero-surface-charge-controlled drilling for enhanced penetration and extended bit life / (Pittsburgh, PA : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1989), by Pamela J. Watson, Patrick A. Tuzinski, William H. Engelmann, and J. E. Pahlman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abrasive-enhanced water-jet drill for hard rocks / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1989), by G. A. Savanick and W. G. Krawza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Design of a compact muffler for a jumbo drill / ([Washington, D.C.] : Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1979]), by A. E. Schwaneke, J. R. Martin, S. E. Lay, and A. Visnapuu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drillability studies : statistical regression analysis of diamond drilling / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1966), by James Paone, Pauline R. Virciglio, William E. Bruce, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drillability studies : impregnated diamond bits / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1966), by James Paone, Dick Madson, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noise from pneumatic rock drills : analogy studies of muffler designs / ([Washington, DC] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Bureau of Mines, [1963]), by Robert T. DeWoody, William C. Miller, John William Chester, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamond-bit performance in sandstone / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1958), by Albert E. Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noise abatement of pneumatic rock drill / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1974), by Charles R. Summers, John N. Murphy, and Pittsburgh Mining and Safety Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zeta potential control for simultaneous enhancement of penetration rates and bit life in rock drilling / ([Avondale, Md.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1987), by J. E. Pahlman, Patrick A. Tuzinski, Pamela J. Watson, and William H. Engelmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drillability studies-laboratory percussive drilling / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1969]), by James Paone, William E. Bruce, Dick Madson, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress report 4 on investigation of detachable rock-drill bits / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1937), by McHenry Mosier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hot milling of rock-drill bits at the mines of the Vinegar Hill Zinc Co., Platteville, Wis. / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1936), by Wing G. Agnew and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress report on investigation of detachable rock-drill bits / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1936), by McHenry Mosier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamond-drilling blast holes, Eastern Magnetite Mine C / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1948), by McHenry Mosier and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamond-drilling blast holes, Bellefonte Mine, National Gypsum Co., Centre County, Pa. / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1948), by McHenry Mosier and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Use of the churn drill at lime-plant quarries / ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1922), by Oliver Bowles and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamond-drilling blast holes, eastern Magnetite Mine A / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1946), by McHenry Mosier and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rock melting as a drilling technique / (Los Alamos, N.M. : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1965), by Eugene S. Robinson, Robert M. Potter, B. B. McInteer, James S. Coleman, Dale E. Armstrong, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Composition of rock core from hole AEC-8, New Mexico / (Vicksburg, Miss. : The Station ; Springfield, Va. : Available from NTIS, 1981), by Jay E. Rhoderick, Alan D. Buck, Structures Laboratory (U.S.), Battelle Memorial Institute. Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, and Sandia Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamond drilling for gold and other minerals : a practical handbook on the use of modern diamond core drills in prospecting and exploiting mineral-bearing properties, including particulars of the cost of apparatus and of working / (London : C. Lockwood, 1900), by G. A. Denny (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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