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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 ...
Mineral breakage along specific crystallographic planes in all specimens due to fewer or weaker chemical bonds in those directions. Compare: mineral parting
Industry:Mining
Mineral cleaning by machines that utilize air currents as the primary separating medium. The air machines can generally be divided into three types: (1) pneumatic jigs, in which the air current is pulsated; (2) pneumatic tables, in which the refuse is diverted from the direction of flow of the clean mineral by a system of riffles fixed to the deck; and (3) pneumatic launders, in which the products are flowing in the same direction, and the clean mineral is skimmed off the top of the bed and/or the refuse is extracted from the bottom in successive stages.
Industry:Mining
Mineral concentrator in which air is pulsed upward through a porous deck by means of a rotary valve.
Industry:Mining
Mineral interests in land means all the minerals beneath the surface. Such interests are a part of the realty, and the estate in them is subject to the ordinary rules of law governing the title to real property.
Industry:Mining
Mineral jig with a quick down stroke and retarded return of its plunger.
Industry:Mining
Mineral replacement in which the host mineral is replaced from its center outward. Compare: centripetal replacement
Industry:Mining
Mineral replacement in which the host mineral is replaced from its periphery inward. Compare: centrifugal replacement
Industry:Mining
Mineral species differ widely in their resistance to weathering processes. This series summarizes the relative resistance to weathering of the common rock-forming silicates, and indicates that the minerals crystallized at the highest temperatures, under the most anhydrous conditions, are more readily weathered than those that crystallized last from the lower temperature, more aqueous magmas.
Industry:Mining
Mineral synthesis in the presence of water at elevated temperatures.
Industry:Mining
