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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 ...
Decrease in one dimension of a soil mass, expressed as a percentage of the original dimension, when the water content is reduced from a given value to the shrinkage limit.
Industry:Mining
Deep-seated regional metamorphism at high temperatures and pressures, often accompanied by strong deformation; batholithic intrusion with accompanying metasomatism, infiltration, and injection (or, alternatively, differential fusion or anatexis) is characteristic. Compare: injection metamorphism
Industry:Mining
Defined by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, as any accident that results in the death of five or more persons.
Industry:Mining
Defined by the U.S. Department of the Interior as "federal lands which are dedicated or set aside for a specific public purpose or program and which are, therefore, generally not subject to disposition under the operation of all the public land laws."
Industry:Mining
Defined by the U.S. Department of the Interior as "lands in Federal ownership which were obtained by the Government through purchase, condemnation, or gift, or by exchange for such purchased, condemned, or donated lands, or for timber on such lands. They are one category of public lands." Public land laws are generally inapplicable to acquired lands.
Industry:Mining
Deformation accomplished by flowage of rocks rather than by rupture.
Industry:Mining
Deformation of a rock by extreme microbrecciation, due to mechanical forces applied in a definite direction, without noteworthy chemical reconstitution of granulated minerals. Characteristically the mylonites thus produced have a flinty, banded, or streaked appearance, and undestroyed augen and lenses of the parent rock in a granulated matrix. Also spelled mylonization.
Industry:Mining
