24 FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



SECTION VII. 



MINING, METALLURGY, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, AND APPLIED 



CHEMISTRY. 



MINING. 



Mining, the pioneer of intimate commercial relations between the Pan 

 American countries; the mineral production of Latin America; 

 the value of technical societies and the work of the American 

 Mining Congress, and the United States Bureau of Mines; mining 

 operations and methods in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, 

 Guatemala, and United States; mining costs, and mine accidents; 

 the conservation of coal, oil, and gas resources of the Americas; 

 the valuation of mining property and the standardization of the 

 mining laws of Pan American countries. 



METALLURGY. 



Metallurgical operations and processes in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and 

 Peru; ore dressing; the electrical furnace in metallurgy, and 

 recent progress in electrical smoke precipitation; the occurrence 

 and preparation of radium and associated metals; the conserva- 

 tion of metals; the buying and selling of South American ores. 



GEOLOGY. 



The public interest in mineral resources, and the organization and cost 

 of geological surveys; the coals of Brazil and the United States; 

 the fuel situation in the Andean Plateau; Bolivian tin deposits 

 and general geology of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, 

 Peru, and Salvador; phosphate resources and the conservation 

 of phosphate rock; iron-ore deposits of the Americas; the mineral 

 . resources of the Pan American countries with special reference 

 to petroleum. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The nitrate industry of Chile; the preservation of foodstuffs and func- 

 tions of foods in securing national efficiency; water purification 

 and sewage disposal ; the interrelations of pure and applied chem- 

 istry; chemical research work and uniform methods of analysis. 



Explosives; -tanning materials; dye stuffs; drying oils; paints for 

 tropical climates; pharmaceutical products, and the manufacture 

 of gasolene. 



