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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, one who operates a hoist powered by electricity to haul loaded and empty cars along a haulage slope to surface of mine.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, one who operates a hoist to raise and lower workers, rock, and supplies during development work (sinking shafts and driving horizontal underground passages prior to the actual mining of coal from a seam).
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, one who operates a hoisting engine that draws the cable of a tail-rope haulage system used to raise and lower mine cars on tracks between the surface and a level in a mine.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, one who operates a mine locomotive to haul trains of cars along underground haulageways in a mine.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, one who operates a small electric haulage locomotive to haul mine cars underground and at the surface of a mine.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, one who operates a small power shovel that has a roundnosed scoop, called a duckbill, to load coal into cars in a mine.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, one who operates the hoisting engine for raising or lowering workers, material, coal, and rock along the main haulage slope (incline) of a mine having one or more auxiliary or relay slopes.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, one who recharges steel shells (tubes) known by the trade name Cardox with metal shearing disks, electrical firing elements, and liquid carbon dioxide to prepare them for blasting coal.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, one who shovels up accumulations of coal, rock, dirt, and refuse at the bottom of a shaft and loads it into buckets that are hoisted to the surface or an upper level for dumping.
Industry:Mining
In bituminous coal mining, one who works in a group that pools its earnings regardless of the type of work performed (drilling, undercutting, blasting, or loading coal).
Industry:Mining
