- 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 loosely rolled cylinder of burlap and 1/4-in-mesh (0.6-cm-mesh) hardware cloth pushed down into a borehole ahead of a string of drill rods to the point where a large crevice or small cavity has been encountered. At this point the cylinder tends to unroll partially, forming a mat that acts as a barrier against which other hole-plugging agents may collect and help seal off the opening.
Industry:Mining
A loosely used term for common opal, hydrophane, and any partly dehydrated or impure opal, as distinguished from precious opal or fire opal.
Industry:Mining
A loosely used term for common opal, hydrophane, and any partly dehydrated or impure opal, as distinguished from precious opal or fire opal.
Industry:Mining
A loss occurring when there is a fluid in the pores of the rock. This loss arises from the relative movement of the fluid and solid as the elastic waves pass through the rock.
Industry:Mining
A low area in the Earth's crust, of tectonic origin, in which sediments have accumulated, e.g., a circular centrocline such as the Michigan Basin, a fault-bordered intermontane feature such as the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, or a linear crustal downwarp such as the Appalachian Basin. Such features were drainage basins at the time of sedimentation, but are not necessarily so today.
Industry:Mining
A low truck or trolley used in pillar methods of working to transport face machines from one heading or bord to another.
Industry:Mining
A low, essentially continuous mound of beach or beach-and-dune material (sand, gravel, shingle) heaped up by the action of waves and currents on the backshore of a beach beyond the present limit of storm waves or the reach of ordinary tides, and occurring singly or as one of a series of approx. parallel deposits. The ridges are roughly parallel to the shoreline and represent successive positions of an advancing shoreline.
Industry:Mining
