- Industry: Mining
- Number of terms: 33118
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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 extensive level barren tract of land covered with a whitish efflorescence of sodium carbonate (natron), as in parts of southwestern and western United States and Mexico.
Industry:Mining
An extensive marshy or barren tract of land that is alternately covered and uncovered by the tide, and consisting of unconsolidated sediment (mostly mud and sand). It may form the top surface of a deltaic deposit.
Industry:Mining
An extensive, nearly level, upland desert surface that is either bare bedrock or bedrock thinly veneered by pebbles, smoothly scoured and polished and generally swept clear of sand and dust by wind action; a rock desert of the plateaus, esp. in the Sahara. The term is also used in other regions, as in Western Australia and the Gobi Desert. Etymol: Arabic, hammadah.
Industry:Mining
An extensive, treeless grassland area in the semiarid mid-latitudes of southeastern Europe and Asia. It is generally considered drier than the prairie which develops in the subhumid midlatitudes of the United States.
Industry:Mining
An extra-flexible cable used for connecting mobile or stationary equipment in a mine to a source of electric energy where permanent wiring is prohibited or impractical. (A portable cable for mining service is not always extra flexible and is used also with portable as well as with mobile and stationary equipment.)
Industry:Mining
An extremely attenuate pyroclastic rock consisting of glass threads which join a series of points forming a polyhedral space lattice. It is formed from pumice by the collapse of the walls of adjacent vesicles and the retraction of the liquid into threads which form the perimeters of the former polygonal faces. The threads are usually of triangular cross section, indicating chilling, before rounding could take place. Such rock has generally been known by Dana's name, thread-lace scoria.
Industry:Mining
An extremely fine-grained natural earthy material composed primarily of hydrous aluminum silicates. It may be a mixture of clay minerals and small amounts of nonclay materials or it may be predominantly one clay mineral. The type is determined by the predominant clay mineral. Clay is plastic when sufficiently pulverized and wetted, rigid when dry, and vitreous when fired to a sufficiently high temperature.
Industry:Mining
An extremely hard cast iron, resulting when a casting is chilled in a metallic mold.
Industry:Mining
