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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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Keweenawan
Mining; General mining
A provincial series of the early Proterozoic in Michigan and Wisconsin.
play of color
Mining; General mining
A pseudochromatic optical effect resulting in flashes of colored light from certain minerals, such as fire opal and labradorite, as they are turned in white light. Periodic ...
cyanide process
Mining; General mining
A process for the extraction of gold from finely crushed ores, concentrates, and tailings by means of cyanide of potassium or sodium used in dilute solutions. The gold is ...
cyanide mill
Mining; General mining
A process for the extraction of gold from finely crushed ores, concentrates, and tailings by means of cyanide of potassium or sodium used in dilute solutions. The gold is ...
Soisson Rodange process
Mining; General mining
A process for the manufacture of high-quality killed basic Bessemer steel in which the steel, after dephosphorization, is poured into another ladle containing the solid components ...
rustless process
Mining; General mining
A process for the manufacture of stainless steels in an electric furnace that uses a chrome ore as a source of chromium with or without the addition of silicoferrochromium, ...
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- Coal mining (40)
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