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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 the coke products industry, a laborer who chips carbon and mud from the edges of coke-oven doors with a steel bar prior to the discharge of the coke.
Industry:Mining
In the coke products industry, a laborer who removes coke from beehive ovens by hand.
Industry:Mining
In the coke products industry, one who regulates the temperature of heating flues and combustion of fuel gas used to heat coal in a byproduct coke oven.
Industry:Mining
In the coke products industry, one who thaws frozen materials in railroad cars by heating sections of shed where cars are spotted.
Industry:Mining
In the Convertol process, replacement of the film of water covering a coal particle by a film of oil.
Industry:Mining
In the early days chains were used in haulage in and around mines. Wire rope has displaced them.
Industry:Mining
In the Earth, the rate at which temperature increases with depth below the surface. In a mine, this is usually estimated at 5.3 degrees F/1,000 ft (1 degrees C/100 m) of shaft depth. Some variability with time of day is typically observed.
Industry:Mining
In the electrical self-potential method of geophysical prospecting, if the chemical composition of the soil or subsoil is such as to give electrical polarization, the zone of electropositive potential is the anodic zone.
Industry:Mining
In the extraction of copper from sulfide ores, the liquid that remains in the converter at the end of the blow. It is essentially molten nickel sulfide or a solution of copper and nickel sulfides.
Industry:Mining
