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Identifier: transactionsmining63amer (find matches)
Title: Transactions
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Subjects: Mineral industries
Publisher: New York (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rcent, and the minimum L05 per cent. Again these are averages and notindividual analyses. The counties in this group are: Greenup, 2.60 percent.; Boyd, 1.67 per cent.; Carter, 1.07 per .cent.; Morgan, 1.40 percent.; Wolfe, 1.83 per cent.; Lee, 2.93 per cent.; Breathitt, 1.85 per cent.;Owsley, 1.09 per cent.; Jackson, 1.06 per cent.; Rockcastle, 2.30 per cent.;Clay, 1.09 per cent.; Laurel, 1.08 per cent.; Pulaski, 2.24 per cent.;Whitley, 1.05 per cent.; McCreary, 1.50 per cent.; and Wayne. Thesulfur percentage average for this area including fifteen important countiesis 1.65 per cent. In the western Kentucky field, the great increase in the percentageof sulfur is at once apparent. Ohio County with 3.78 per cent, is thehighest and Hancock with 2.87 per cent, is the lowest. The percentagesby counties is as follows: Hancock, 2.87 per cent.; Henderson, 3.22 percent.; McLean, 3.27 per cent.; Muhlenberg, 3.31 per cent.; Hopkins, * State Geologist of Kentucky. 724 LOW-SULFUR COALS OF KENTUCKY
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. WILLAKI) R. JILLSON 725 3.42 per cent.; Webster, 3.49 per cent.; Butler, 3.50 per cent.; Union,3.62 per cent.; Daviess, 3.65 per cent.; Ohio, 3.78 per cent. The sulfurpercentage average for the area, including ten counties and all of thewestern Kentucky coal field is 3.41 per cent. In arriving at the above averages upon which the boundaries of thethree districts were determined, 514 selected air-dried analyses were usedout of a total of about 750, which were reviewed. These analyses weremade by two agencies, the U. S. Bureau of Mines and the KentuckyState Chemist. The number of analyses used per county may be foundby referring to the map. For example, Floijd, 0.88—37A, means thatthe Floyd County percentage of sulfur of 0.88 was secured as an averagefrom 37 analyses. In the following table of the important low-sulfur coals of easternKentucky access was had to over 250 additional analyses of the samecharacter out of which 160 were selected and used in compilation of thedata presente

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