- Industry: Mining
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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 ...
A large euhedral or subhedral crystal (as of barite, gypsum, and esp. calcite) loaded with detrital-sand inclusions (up to 60%), developed by growth in an incompletely cemented sandstone during cementation.
Industry:Mining
A large form of inclined canvas table in which the pulp is first classified, then distributed along the upper edge of the table. The concentrates are caught in the warp of the canvas; after this is full, treatment must be stopped while the concentrates are swept or sluiced off.
Industry:Mining
A large fracture zone, up to many tens of feet in width, consisting of parallel ore-filled fissures and converging diagonals, the walls and the intervening country rock of which have undergone some replacement.
Industry:Mining
A large holding furnace for molten pig iron. The capacity of these furnaces, which are of the tilting type, is up to 1,400 st (1,270 t). Hot metal mixers may be active (that is, the pig iron is partially refined while in the furnace) or inactive (that is, the pig iron is merely kept molten until it is required for transfer to a steelmaking furnace). In either case, the bottom and walls of the furnace are made of magnesite refractories and the roof of silica refractories.
Industry:Mining
A large iron bucket with a valve in the bottom for self-filling; sometimes used in hoisting the water from a mine.
Industry:Mining
A large knot is one whose average diameter exceeds one-third the width of the surface on which it appears; but such a knot may be allowed if it occurs outside the sections of the mine track tie between 6 in and 18 in (15 cm and 46 cm) from each end.
Industry:Mining
A large mass of ice formed, at least in part, on land by the compaction and recrystallization of snow, moving slowly by creep downslope or outward in all directions due to the stress of its own weight, and surviving from year to year. Included are small mountain glaciers as well as ice sheets continental in size, and ice shelves that float on the ocean but are fed in part by ice formed on land.
Industry:Mining
A large mass of snow, ice, soil, or rock, or mixtures of these materials, falling, sliding, or flowing very rapidly under the force of gravity. Velocities may sometimes exceed 500 km/hr.
Industry:Mining
A large pipe or shaft for conducting air, such as for ventilation or to a furnace.
Industry:Mining
