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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 name given to the X direction as pencilled on Z sections of unfaced quartz and whose position is determined by X-ray measurements or etching. The name is also given to the artificial prism face (parallel to 1120) thus located, and produced by sawing the section in the YZ plane. Also applied to the natural growth faces on faced raw quartz crystals.
Industry:Mining
A name given to various iron ores and esp. to siderite, because it was supposed to be esp. adapted for making steel by the earlier and direct process.
Industry:Mining
A name given to various native earthy materials used as pigments. They consist essentially of hydrated ferric oxide admixed with clay and sand in varying amounts and in impalpable subdivision. When carrying much manganese ochers grade into umbers. 2153 They are either yellow, brown, or red. The best reds are sometimes obtained by calcining the yellow varieties. They are called burnt ochers. Others are obtained by calcining copperas or as a residue from roasting pyrite. In general, the native yellows and browns are varieties of limonite and the native reds are varieties of hematite. One variety of red ocher is known as scarlet ocher. Their value as pigments depends not only on the depth of color but also on the amount of oil required as a vehicle.
Industry:Mining
A name given to various native earthy materials used as pigments. They consist essentially of hydrated ferric oxide admixed with clay and sand in varying amounts and in impalpable subdivision. When carrying much manganese ochers grade into umbers. 2153 They are either yellow, brown, or red. The best reds are sometimes obtained by calcining the yellow varieties. They are called burnt ochers. Others are obtained by calcining copperas or as a residue from roasting pyrite. In general, the native yellows and browns are varieties of limonite and the native reds are varieties of hematite. One variety of red ocher is known as scarlet ocher. Their value as pigments depends not only on the depth of color but also on the amount of oil required as a vehicle.
Industry:Mining
A name of a soft grade of paraffin wax with a low melting point. It can be burned in an ordinary miners' lamp with a nail (usually copper) in the wick and gives little smoke.
Industry:Mining
A name of a soft grade of paraffin wax with a low melting point. It can be burned in an ordinary miners' lamp with a nail (usually copper) in the wick and gives little smoke.
Industry:Mining
A name often given to tremolite asbestos to distinguish it from Canadian or chrysotile asbestos; extensively quarried in Piedmont and Lombardy, Italy.
Industry:Mining
