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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 flotation process, a collection of bubbles resulting from agitation, the bubbles being the agency for raising (floating) the particles of ore to the surface of the cell.
Industry:Mining
In the foundry industry, a laborer who unloads, stores, and conveys coke within the foundry.
Industry:Mining
In the gravity concentration of minerals, a jig with a flexible diaphragm used to pulse water. The Bendelari, Pan-American, Denver, and Conset are examples.
Industry:Mining
In the ion-exchange (IX) cycle, applied to pregnant leach liquors, the displacement wash used after the absorption cycle, which moves pregnant liquor still in the column onto the next absorption column in the series. Term also applied to water rinse used after elution cycle, and before acid rinse.
Industry:Mining
In the ion-exchange (IX) process, the feed to the exchange columns. In solvent extraction, the aqueous feed containing the metal values to be extracted into the organic phase.
Industry:Mining
In the iron and steel industry, a general term applied to workers who perform varied duties around the processing furnaces.
Industry:Mining
In the iron and steel industry, a laborer who shovels coal into a wheelbarrow and pushes it to a furnace.
Industry:Mining
In the iron and steel industry, one who controls the skip hoist by which a skip car containing coke, limestone, or ore is hauled up an inclined runway to the furnace top and dumped into the charging bell of the furnace.
Industry:Mining
In the iron and steel industry, one who determines whether iron or steel bars, sheets, or wire are being rolled to plant specification, so that the rolls may be adjusted to reduce the metal the desired amount for each pass, using calipers to check the thickness (gage) of the various products.
Industry:Mining
In the iron and steel industry, one who operates a skip hoist to carry scrap material to the furnaces.
Industry:Mining
