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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 laborer who pulls empty cars from cage or detaches them from hoisting cable when hoisting of loaded cars is done on one side of the shaft or haulage slope and lowering is done on the other.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who rides and attends a dilly (light wagon, truck, or water cart) used to haul coal or water underground or at the surface of a mine, loading, unloading, and cleaning it.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who scoops drillings out of boreholes in which explosives are to be charged for blasting down coal, using a slender iron rod with a cupshaped projection bent at right angles to the handle.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who switches cars to various tracks, couples and uncouples trains, and attaches and detaches cars to and from the haulage cable at a mine where there are several sidetracks on the haulageway.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who tends operation of, adjusts, and repairs pumping devices (rams) used in low places in shallow mines to force a portion of the mine water to the surface by utilization of the flow of the entire amount. Nearly obsolete. See: pumper
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a person who fires the boiler supplying steam for the engine that powers the tail-rope haulage system, a type of cable haulage used to raise and lower cars along an incline between the surface and a level in a mine.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a person who is in charge of a crew of loaders shoveling rock into cars during the driving of new underground passageways from one part of the mine to another.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a person who operates a machine to load coal in mine (pit) cars.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a person who operates a mine locomotive to haul cars over the main haulage tracks underground or at the surface, as distinguished from the branch lines.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, a person who operates a mine locomotive to haul trips (trains) of cars, loaded with timbers, rails, explosives, and other supplies, into a mine.
Industry:Mining
