| LC control no. | n 79063444 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | United States. Bureau of Mines |
| Variant(s) | BOM U.S. Bureau of Mines United States. Departamento de Minas United States. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Mines United States. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Mines United States. Mines, Bureau of USBM |
| See also | Hierarchical superior: United States. Department of Commerce Hierarchical superior: United States. Department of the Interior |
| Other standard no. | Q7889588 147093372 0000000122941336 |
| Biography/History note | Established May 10, 1910; transferred to the Dept. of Commerce by executive order, June 4, 1925 and effective July 1, 1926; transferred from the Dept. of Commerce to the Dept. of Interior by Executive order dated February 22, 1934; abolished by the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 (110 Stat. 1321), April 26, 1996, which appropriated $64 million to cover closure expenses. |
| Beginning date | 1910-05-10 |
| Ending date | 1996-04-26 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Washington (D.C.) |
| Field of activity | Mines and mineral resources |
| Special note | AACR 1 form: United States. Bureau of Mines. The following subdivisions have not been used as headings: Coal Division; Coal Economics Division; Division of Mineral Resources; Economics and Statistics Branch; Economics and Statistics Division; Fuel Division; Health and Safety Division; Inter-industry Analysis Branch; Mount Weather Field Station, Bluemont, Va.; Office of Chief Economist; Pittsburgh Experiment Station; Petroleum and Natural Gas Division; Office of Mineral Reports; Division of Minerals; Division of Bituminous Coal; Branch of Bituminous Coal Economics; Northwest Electrodevelopment Laboratory, Albany, Or.; Petroleum Experiment Station, Bartlesville, Okla. |
| Found in | Resource recovery of strategic and other metals from ECM and EDM operations, 1984: t.p. (BOM; Bureau of Mines) Additives for strengthening backfill ... 1985: p. 4 (USBM; Bureau of Mines) Primeros auxilios, manual de instrucciones ... 1958: t.p. (Departamento de Minas de los Estados Unidos) p. iii (Departamento de Minas (Bureau of Mines)) Williams, R.E. Analysis of an acid producing underground lead-zinc mine ... [MI] 1988: t.p. (U.S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C.) U.S. Department of the Interior home page, 7/9/97 (at DOI 1995 annual report, Bureau of Mines: Bureau est'd in 1910; Sept. 1995, Congress voted to close Bureau and transfer some activities to Dept. of Energy, and U.S. Geological Survey, and Bureau of Land Management; Bureau basically closed March 1996) |
| Associated language | eng |
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