- 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 ...
Any and all parts of the property of a mining plant, on the surface or underground, that contribute, directly or indirectly, under one management to the mining or handling of coal. In addition to the underground roadways, staple shafts, and workings, a coal mine includes all surface land in use, buildings, structures and works, preparation plants, etc. A colliery.
Industry:Mining
Any apparatus for measuring the quantity of heat generated in a body or emitted by it, such as by observing the quantity of a solid liquefied or of a liquid vaporized under given conditions. Used in determining specific heat; latent heat; the heat of chemical combinations; etc.
Industry:Mining
Any area searched during interpolation between sample data points. Applies to any interpolation method where a limited number of sample data points are used to estimate intermediate values.
Industry:Mining
Any artificial embankment used to control the flow of water in a river or on irrigated land. The term is applied extensively in India to large low dams and dikes and also to the small ridges between rice fields. Also, an embanked causeway or thoroughfare along a river or the sea.
Industry:Mining
Any assemblage of rock material that, as a result of fracturing, faulting, mode of deposition, etc., contains a high percentage of voids, pores, and other openings.
Industry:Mining
Any bed or vein that is capable of being mined, but usually applied to a coal seam or ore deposit that can be mined profitably.
Industry:Mining
Any bedded formation of rock where the dip of the bedding planes is greater than 10 degrees .
Industry:Mining
Any bedding or bedding structure produced by current action; specif. cross-bedding resulting from water or air currents of variable direction.
Industry:Mining
Any boring machine for making a tunnel; often a ram armed with cutting faces operated by compressed air.
Industry:Mining
Any change in the mineralogic composition of a rock brought about by physical or chemical means, esp. by the action of hydrothermal solutions; also, a secondary, i.e., supergene, change in a rock or mineral. Alteration is sometimes considered as a phase of metamorphism, but is usually distinguished from it because of being milder and more localized than metamorphism is generally thought to be.
Industry:Mining
