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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 bituminous coal mining, a foreperson who supervises mine haulage operations underground or at the surface.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a general term applied to a worker who is engaged in mining coal in a strip mine, one in which the coal is close enough to the Earth's surface to permit the use of power shovels in stripping back the ground and loading the coal into large cars or trucks. Usually designated according to particular jobs.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who arranges large lumps of coal uniformly on flatcars as they are loaded at the mine surface.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who chalks on a car the number of rooms or working places from which coal is obtained in order that a production record of all parts of a mine can be maintained.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who fills paper cartridges (cylinders) with clay, adobe, or rock dust, used for stemming (tamping clay or other material on top of explosives) drill holes in the working face to be blasted down.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who follows in the wake of a coal-cutting machine as it undercuts the face of coal, and breaks down the front of the working face above the channel with a pick so that the coal will drop freely when it is blasted.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who hand loads large lumps of coal into cars at working places in a mine.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who oils and greases the pulleys on which run the cables that are used to raise and lower cars along haulage roads underground and at the surface of mines.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who places the cable-drawn scoop of a scraper loader in position for it to scrape up coal (blasted from the working face) as it is dragged by the hoisting engine to a point where the coal is dumped into mine cars.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who pries down loose roof rock with a bar after coal has been blasted from the working face; the worker picks out seam partings (layers of rock) in the coal working face prior to blasting, using a long handled pick.
Industry:Mining
