- 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 ...
A cylindrical heavy piece of iron attached to a cable or wire line, making it descend rapidly into a borehole when the cable or line is not attached to a string of drilling tools or equipment.
Industry:Mining
A cylindrical heavy piece of iron attached to a cable or wire line, making it descend rapidly into a borehole when the cable or line is not attached to a string of drilling tools or equipment.
Industry:Mining
A cylindrical heavy piece of iron attached to a cable or wire line, making it descend rapidly into a borehole when the cable or line is not attached to a string of drilling tools or equipment.
Industry:Mining
A cylindrical object, having a diameter equal to the inside set diameter of a specific-size bit, used to measure the inside set diameter of a core bit.
Industry:Mining
A cylindrical or bell-shaped container closed at the upper end and attached in an upright position above and to the discharge of a piston-type pump. Air trapped inside the closed cylinder acts as a compressible medium, whose expansion and contraction tends to reduce the severity of the pulsations imparted to the liquid discharged by each stroke of a pump piston.
Industry:Mining
A cylindrical or bell-shaped container closed at the upper end and attached in an upright position above and to the discharge of a piston-type pump. Air trapped inside the closed cylinder acts as a compressible medium, whose expansion and contraction tends to reduce the severity of the pulsations imparted to the liquid discharged by each stroke of a pump piston.
Industry:Mining
A cylindrical or bell-shaped container closed at the upper end and attached in an upright position above and to the discharge of a piston-type pump. Air trapped inside the closed cylinder acts as a compressible medium, whose expansion and contraction tends to reduce the severity of the pulsations imparted to the liquid discharged by each stroke of a pump piston.
Industry:Mining
A cylindrical refractory-lined shell, provided with a gas flue leading to a recuperator at one end, and a fuel and air port at the other. Air for combustion is preheated in the recuperator, and oil firing is adopted. The furnace may be used for melting gray iron and nonferrous metals.
Industry:Mining
A cylindrical sample of soil for tests and examination. Undisturbed samples may be obtained by the use of special appliances, which allow extraction of soil cores of 2995 diameter usually 1-1/2 in (3.8 cm) or 4 in (10.2 cm). The core barrel, forming part of the coring tool, is detachable and is capped and the core hermetically sealed for delivery to the laboratory. The natural moisture content and other properties are preserved for examination. Individual soil cores, up to 3 ft (0.9 m) in length, may be obtained by continuous coring if necessary.
Industry:Mining
A cylindrical shell lined with grooved rubber set parallel to its axis, which is inclined, peripheral riffles thus being formed. Used to arrest heavy particles such as metallic gold as auriferous pulp flows gently through while the cylinder revolves slowly and the arrested material rises and drops on to a separate discharge launder.
Industry:Mining
