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  VAcknowledgments 
 In preparing this Minerals Yearbook volume, the Bureau of Mines was assisted
in the collection of statistical data and mineral-industry information by
State agencies, through cooperative agreements. Many State chapters; were
reviewed by staff members of these agencies, and in some instances the staff
members collaborated in preparing the chapters and are shown as coauthors.
For this assistance acknowledgment is made to the following cooperating organizations:

 
Alabama: Geological Survey of Alabama. 
Alaska: Division of Mines and Minerals of the Alaska Department of Natural
Resources. 
Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Mines and Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Commission; Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission;
Department of Revenue. 
 
California: Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines and Geology.

Colorado: The Oil and Gas Conservation Commission; Coal Mines inspections
Department; and the Colorado Bureau of Mines. 
Connecticut: Geological and Natural History Survey. 
 
Delaware: Delaware Geological Survey. 
 
Florida: Geological Survey of Florida, Board of Conservation. 
 
Georgia: Geological Survey of Georgia. 
 
Hawaii: Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. 
 
Idaho: Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology. 
Illinois: Illinois Geological Survey. 
Indiana: Geological Survey, Indiana Department of Natural Resources. 
Iowa: Geological Survey of Iowa. 
 
Kansas: Conservation Division, State Corporation Commission; ~&nd State
Geological Survey of Kansas. 
Kentucky: Geological Survey of Kentucky. 
 
Louisiana: Louisiana Geological Survey; Louisiana Department of Con—
servation; Department of Labor, Division of Employment Security; and Department
of Commerce and Industry. 
 
Maine: Geological Survey of Maine, Department of Economic Development.. 
Maryland: Maryland Geological Survey. 
Michigan: Geological Survey Division of the Michigan Department of Conservation.

Minnesota: Minnesota Geological Survey. 
Mississippi: Mississippi Geological Survey, Mississippi State Oil Gas Board;
Oil and Gas Severance Tax Division, Mississippi State Tax Commission; and
Mississippi Employment Security Commission. 
Missouri: Division of Geological Survey and Water Resources, Department of
Business Administration. 
Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, The Oil and Gas Conservation
Commission. 

					
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