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Mining

Of or pertaining to the process or business of extracting materials, such as ore or minerals, from the earth's crust.

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Acheson process

Mining; General mining

A process for the production of artificial or synthetic graphite. It consists of sintering pulverized coke in the Acheson furnace at 2,760 to 3,316 degrees C.

Dow process

Mining; General mining

A process for the production of magnesium by electrolysis of molten magnesium chloride.

Pidgeon process

Mining; General mining

A process for the production of magnesium by the reduction of magnesium oxide with ferrosilicon.

Hopfner process

Mining; General mining

A process for the recovery of copper in which a solution of cuprous chloride in sodium or calcium chloride is used to dissolve copper sulfides. The solution is then electrolyzed ...

Moissan process

Mining; General mining

A process for the reduction of chromic oxide with carbon in an electric furnace, the hearth of which is lined with a calcium chromite prepared by heating together lime and chromic ...

dense-medium process

Mining; General mining

A process for the washing of coal, in which the desired separation is effected in a dense medium.

Lehmann process

Mining; General mining

A process for treating coal by disintegration and separation of the petrographic constituents (fusain, durain, and vitrain). It consists of subjecting the coal to resilient ...