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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 ...
In a blast furnace, a watercooled casting, usually of copper, that is pressed into the cinder notch.
Industry:Mining
In a blast furnace, the cast-iron plate that supports the dam or dam stone in front.
Industry:Mining
In a bucket, the ability to change its digging or dumping angle by power.
Industry:Mining
In a cable excavator, the line that pulls the bucket from the dumping point back to the digging.
Industry:Mining
In a circuit, safety such that any sparking that may occur in that circuit in normal working, or in reasonable fault conditions, is incapable of causing an explosion of the prescribed inflammable gas.
Industry:Mining
In a closed conduit, a line joining the elevations to which water could stand in risers. In an open conduit, the hydraulic gradeline is the water surface.
Industry:Mining
In a clutch, a plate driven by the flywheel or rotating housing, which can be slid toward the flywheel to engage the lined disk or disks between them.
Industry:Mining
In a coal mine, atmosphere containing poisonous gases or a lack of sufficient oxygen as a result of combustible gases explosions, coal-dust explosions, combined gas and dust explosions, or mine fires, and which can only be entered by persons wearing breathing apparatus.
Industry:Mining
In a combustion chamber, air that meets with primary air to consume the fuel completely and complete combustion.
Industry:Mining
