- Industry: Mining
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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 aspirator for hastening the process of filtering by creating a partial vacuum.
Industry:Mining
An assay made by a third party to settle a difference found in the results of assays made by the purchaser and the seller of ore.
Industry:Mining
An assay made by an umpire to determine the basis on which a purchaser is to pay the seller for ore.
Industry:Mining
An assemblage of intimately associated and roughly contemporaneous igneous rocks differing in form or in petrographic type; it may consist of plutonic rocks, volcanic rocks, or both.
Industry:Mining
An assemblage of machines and equipment, including the necessary housing, where electrical energy is produced from some other form of energy. Steam boilers are fed with coal or oil and the heat generated is used to produce high-pressure steam. The steam then passes to turbines that drive the generators and thus produce electricity.
Industry:Mining
An assemblage of ropes or wire cables and pulleys arranged for hoisting or pulling.
Industry:Mining
An assemblage of temporally and spatially related igneous rocks of the same general form of occurrence (plutonic, hypabyssal, or volcanic), characterized by possessing in common certain chemical, mineralogic, and textural features or properties so that the rocks together exhibit a continuous variation from one extremity of the series to the other.
Industry:Mining
An assemblage of temporally and spatially related igneous rocks of the same general form of occurrence (plutonic, hypabyssal, or volcanic), characterized by possessing in common certain chemical, mineralogic, and textural features or properties so that the rocks together exhibit a continuous variation from one extremity of the series to the other.
Industry:Mining
