- Industry: Mining
- Number of terms: 33118
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
An agitator with paddle-wheel-type arms; they are hollow, and the pulp solution or air is discharged from nozzles on these arms, thus causing the stirrer to rotate.
Industry:Mining
An agreement between a mine owner and tributor that gives the latter the option of buying the mine before the lease expires.
Industry:Mining
An agreement between two or more persons to locate mines upon the public domain by their joint aid, effort, labor, or expense, and each is to acquire by virtue of the act of location such an interest in the mine as agreed upon in the contract.
Industry:Mining
An agreement to locate need not be in writing. If a party, in pursuance of an oral agreement to locate at the expense of another, locates the claim in his or her own name, he or she holds the legal title to the ground in trust for the benefit of the party for whom the location was made. Such a party could, upon making the necessary proofs, compel the locator of the mining claim to convey the title to him or her, although the agreement to do so was not in writing. Such an agreement is not within the statute of frauds.
Industry:Mining
An air chamber comprising steel cylinder 18 ft (5.5 m) long and about 6 ft (1.8 m) in diameter, which has airtight doors at one end and is closed at the other. It is used for immediate treatment of sufferers from caisson disease.
Industry:Mining
An air cleaner in which particulate matter in the airstream is electrically charged, then attracted to surfaces oppositely charged.
Industry:Mining
An air crossing in which two airways are separated by rock in its natural state.
Industry:Mining
An air hammer attachment that fits on plank ends so that they can be driven without splintering.
Industry:Mining
