Minersville
a town in Schuylkill co., Pa., in the midst of the anthracite coal-mining district. Three railroads enter the borough, the Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley, and the Reading. An electric road connects it with Pottsville. Pop. (1910) 7,240; (1920) 7,845.
MINERVA (mi-nur'vä), in Roman mythology, the goddess of wisdom and war, the liberal arts, science, and learning. She is reputed to have been the offspring of Jupiter's brain, without a mother. She is also called Athena, Pallas, Parthenos, Tritonia, Glaucopsis (Blue- Eyes), Agoræa, Hippia, Stratea, Area, Sais, etc., according to the arts she taught or the functions over which she presided. The serpent, the owl, and the cock were sacred to her; and among the plants, the olive. She was worshiped over all parts of Greece; but her great temple was the Parthenon at Athens, where she was the presiding goddess, MINERAL PRODUCTION 242 MINERAL PRODUCTION 1,469,115 434,485 5,614,335 1,927,511 61,966,412 78,600 20,000 357,000 1,100,000 66,032,000 1,373,400,000 311,750 10,000,000 1,454,000 1,380,000 1,381,000 MINERAL PRODUCTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1918 AND 19192 Quantity-1918-Value Quantity-1919-Value Aluminum.
Antimonial lead ....pounds. .. short tons (2,000 pounds) $41,159,000 18,570 $38,558,000 2,826,350 Antimony 12,822 5,183 1,407,774 21,306,116 Bauxite. .long tons (2,240 pounds) 2,502 2 410,328 605,721 3,447,992 Cadmium. ..pounds.. 376,566 127,164 2,201,747 188,203 Chromic iron ore Copper, sales value Ferroalloys.
Gold..
Iron-Ore..
Pig..... 99,939 long tons. 82,430 121,926 3,955,567 3,900 ..pounds.. 1,908,533,595 87,000 471,408,000 long tons.. 750,868 1,310,972,580 115,433,943 243,841,000 3 3 troy ounces.. 3,320,784 68,646,700 .long tons.. 72,021,202 2,829,395 4244,368,147 58,488,800 66 56,319,000 38,230,440 1,180,759,565 4203,274,000 Lead (refined) sales value.
Manganese ore (35 per cent. or more Mn) short tons.. 30,646,000 539,905 809,246,000 76,667,000 .long tons.. 431,000 305,869 45,686,000 8,240,386 Manganiferous ore (5 to 35 per cent. Mn) 58,243 1,170,462 5,635,579 1,974,114 Nickel (value at New York City) short tons. 396,572 441 1,469,115 Platinum and allied metals (value at New York City) 401,000 .troy ounces. 59,753 1,511 434,485 Quicksilver (value at San Francisco) flasks (75 pounds net) 6,417,980 45,109 32,883 3,863,752 5,614,335 Silver. troy ounces. 67,810,139 21,348 66,485,129 1,927,511 Tin (metallic equivalent).. short tons.. 55,285,196 69 " 118,500 61,966,412 60 Titanium ore (rutile)... ... 261 78,600 39,150 Tungsten ore (60 per cent. concentrates) 224,801 96 5,068 66 6,650,000 20,000 330 Uranium and vanadium minerals. 357,000 5,465,481 957,000 Zinc, sales value... 492,405 .. 89,618,000 1,100,000 452,272 Total value of metallic products (approximate) PRODUCT-NON-METALLIC .. 2,152,919,000 201000 Arsenious oxide5 Asbestos.
Asphalt Barytes (crude) Borates. .short tons.. 6,323 1,213,000 6,029 802 121,687 1,031 587,609 8,216,012 715,000 66 66,032,000, 1,373,400,000 172 000 000 6.... 311,750 10,000,000 .. 155,368 1,044,905 190,000 1,454,000 66 88,794 2,179,830 66,146 Bromine Calcium-magnesium chloride Cement Clay-Products 1,380,000 ...pounds.. 1,727,156 970,099 1,957,500 1,381,000 short tons.. 26,624 503,452 26,500 341,200 barrels (376 pounds net). 71,348,474 113,554,854 86,013,000 145,058,000 2,976,361 220,573,493 260,790,000 Raw..
Coal-Bituminous. short tons.. 4 8,332,641 2,363,000 47,077,000 66 579,385,820 1,491,809,940 458,063,000 7 Pennsylvania anthracite.
Coke.......
Diatomaceous (infusorial) earth and tripoli.
Emery (also corundum in 1918).
Feldspar.
Fluorspar pounds short tons (2,000 pounds) long tons (2,240 pounds) pounds long tons troy ounces long tons short tons long tons Gems and precious stones Graphite Amorphous..
Whitealte Crystalline..
MINERAL PRODUCTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1918 AND 1919¹ Gypsum long tons.. 88,237,575 336,480,347 77,000,000 7 short tons.. 56,478,372 *382,324,368 44,821,000 48 " .. 8859 22,947 224,801 7 7 пре .. 10,422 112,878 2,000 42,000 99,120 674,346 7. 7 ... 66 263,817 5,465,481 122,000 3,102,000 long tons short tons .. 84,468 1,146,354 106,000 2,000,000 " 4,696 248,161 4,865 303,437 106,523 123,046 " short tons. pounds.. short tons.. 2,057,015 6,560 69,455 4,000 47,000 short tons 1,454,799 7,434,000 696,000 65,339 1,776,282 11,470,854 2,416,000 16,000,000 MINERAL PRODUCTION 243 MINERAL PRODUCTION Lime Magnesite (crude) Mica-Scrap..
Sheet.....
Millstones Mineral paints-Natural pigments.
Zinc and lead pigments.
Mineral waters Natural gas..
Natural-gas gasoline Oilstones, etc Peat..
Petroleum Phosphate rock Potash (K2O) Pumice Pyrite Salt.
Sand-Glass..
Molding, building, etc., and gravel.
Sand-lime brick Silica (quartz) Slate Stone..
Sulphur short tons. .pounds.. short tons.. 66 3,206,016 231,605 2,292 26,808,909 1,812,601 2,976,000 27,023,000 164,696 1,652,094 1,644,200 33,130 731,810 92,514 7 10 10 135,746 26,464,590 155,648 25,810,671 .gallons sold..
M cubic feet.. 11 Figures for 1919 represent production figures of sales (as for 1918) not yet available. Production decreased 24,814 short tons, or 45 per cent. in 4,533,001 721,000,959 quantity, and $14,271,220, or 66 per cent. in value in 1919, as compared 12 Includes products as follows: Antimony other than content of anti- monial lead, optical fluorspar, metallic arsenic (also white arsenic in 1919), bismuth, cadmium sulphide, chats, chert, columbite (TA₂O₅), cobalt con- centrates, diatomaceous earth for special uses, flint lining for tube mills, ilmenite, iron ore sold for paint, lithium minerals, magnesium, marls, 43,718,153 bonate, and sulphate) from natural sources, strontium ore, tellurium, and an estimate of the value of miscellaneous mineral products, statistics for which are not collected annually by the Survey. 4,384,657 159,650,000 ..gallons. 282,535,550 with 1918. 8 63,500,000 .short tons.. 1,010 sandstone (finely ground), slate granules, sodium salts (carbonate, bicar- 7...... 7 .. .... 66 barrels (42 gallons).. 107,261 1,047,243 76,301 860,841 10 Canvass discontinued after 1915. Value of iron ore sold for paint, in- 703,943,961 377,719,000 775,000,000 .long tons.. 2,490,760 molybdenum, monazite sand, pebbles for grinding, selenium, silica sand and 1,941,700 10,335,900 .short tons.. 38,580 15,839,618 11 29,989 11 7,246,448 66 30,637 91,178 9........ .long tons.. short tons.. 464,494 2,644,515 380,000 2,500,000 7,238,744 26,940,361 7,064,500 27,296,000 66
2,172,887 4,209,728 1,690,000 3,090,000 66
59,651,539 33,717,351 58,506,000 34,729,000 thousands.. 98,399 883,929 145,000 1,724,000 short tons.. 71,740 2,159,330 7. ..... 4,038,770 5,065,000 short tons long tons 68,563,360 82,700,430 71,380,000 115,000,000 short tons 1,266,709 27,868,000 670,000 16,750,000 short tons. .... 137,140 1,778,919 200,000 2,460,000 66 71,167 902,100 .pounds.. 3,379,080,000 3,275,000,000 642,929,000 1,373,400,000 3,275,000,000 5,300,000 4,653,700,000 short tons long tons Tale and soapstone (exclusive of fibrous talc) short tons pounds short tons gallons sold M cubic feet gallons short tons barrels (42 gallons) long tons Talc, fibrous.
Thorium minerals (monazite) Total value of metallic products.
SUMMARY Total value of nonmetallic products (exclusive of mineral fuels) Total value of mineral fuels.
Total estimated value of "unspecified" (metallic and non-metallic) products11.
Grand total approximate value of all mineral products.... 2 Excluded from metallic totals, as the value of the antimony contained in antimonial lead is included in the antimonial lead value, and the remainder under last item ("unspecified"). 1 Many of the figures for 1919 are estimated. 3
Figures for 1919 not yet available. Estimate of value included in total value of metallic products. 4 Not included in total value. 5 In addition to the arsenious oxide (white arsenic), metallic arsenic was produced in 1918 and 1919. to publish figures. • Value included under last item ("unspecified"). Survey not at liberty
Figures for 1919 not yet available. Estimate of value included in total 8 Figures not yet available. value of non-metallic products. • Exclusive of considerable production for special uses, value for which is included under last item ("unspecified"). 2,152,819,000 2,736,151,000 6,700,000 5,538,699,000 10 Canvass discontinued after 1915. Value of iron ore sold for paint, included under last item ("unspecified"). 11 Figures for 1919 represent production; figures of sales (as for 1918) not yet available. Production decreased 24,814 short tons, or 45 per cent. in quantity, and $14,271,220, or 66 per cent. in value in 1919, as compared with 1918. 12 Includes products as follows: Antimony other than content of antimonial lead, optical fluorspar, metallic arsenic (also white arsenic in 1919), bismuth, cadmium sulphide, chats, chert, columbite (TA2O5), cobalt convalue of non-metallic products. 8 Figures not yet available. ilmenite, iron ore sold for paint, lithium minerals, magnesium, marls, molybdenum, monazite sand, pebbles for grinding, selenium, silica sand and produced in 1918 and 1919. bonate, and sulphate) from natural sources, strontium ore, tellurium, and an Total value of metallic products are not collected annually by the Survey.
MINES and in which fane there was a colossal statue of her, by Phidias, overlaid with ivory.