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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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briquetting
Mining; General mining
A process by which coke breeze, coal dust, iron ore, or any other pulverized mineral is bound together into briquettes, under pressure, with or without a binding agent such as ...
Brackelsberg process
Mining; General mining
A process by which fine ores are moistened with water to which a binding medium is added, and the wet mass, without any heating, is rotated in a drum until it forms into spherical ...
emplacement
Mining; General mining
A process by which igneous rock intrudes, or an orebody is formed in older rocks.
dry sweating
Mining; General mining
A process by which impure blister copper is exposed to long oxidizing heating below fusion point.
Waelz process
Mining; General mining
A process by which low-grade ores, slags, or residues from retorts may be treated either for the recovery of zinc alone or for the recovery of zinc, lead, and tin. It employs a ...
piecemeal stoping
Mining; General mining
A process by which magma eats into its roof by engulfing relatively small isolated blocks, which presumably sink to depth where they are assimilated.
incorporation
Mining; General mining
A process by which material contributing to coal formation responds to diagenetic and metamorphic agencies of coalification and becomes a part of the coal without undergoing any ...
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- Coal mining (40)
- Diamond mining (39)
- General mining (41978)
- Gold mining (103)
- Mineral mining (36958)
- Minerals (696)
- Mining tools (94)
- Space mining (40)