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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 primary crusher consisting of a vertical spindle, the foot of which is mounted in an eccentric bearing within a conical shell. The top carries a conical crushing head revolving eccentrically in a conical maw. There are three types of gyratories--those that have the greatest movement on the smallest lump, those that have equal movement for all lumps, and those that have greatest movement on the largest lump.
Industry:Mining
A primary division of the sea that includes all of the ocean floor. The Benthic Division is subdivided into the Littoral System (the ocean floor lying in water depths ranging from the high watermark to a depth of 200 m or the edge of the continental shelf), and the Deep-Sea System (ocean floor lying in water deeper than 200 m). The systems are further subdivided into the Eulittoral Zone (0 to 50 m), Sublittoral Zone (50 to 200 m), Archibenthic Zone (200 to 1,000 m), and the Abyssal-Benthic Zone (1,000 m and greater).
Industry:Mining
A primary sedimentary structure characterized by an arrangement of flat, tabular, or disk-shaped fragments whose long axes are set at varying steep angles to the bedding. It may be due to running water or to sliding or slumping soon after deposition.
Industry:Mining
A primary texture due to crystallization from an aqueous medium, as in rock salt (halite), gypsum, and anhydrite.
Industry:Mining
A prime mover coupled to an alternator, using a purely rotary motion to generate an alternating current. The main types of water turbines are (1) the Pelton wheel for high heads, (2) the Francis turbine for low to medium heads, and (3) the Kaplan turbine for a wide range of heads.
Industry:Mining
A primitive, extinct crustacean, occurring throughout the Paleozoic and abundant in the earlier Paleozoic periods, characterized by a segmented body divided by longitudinal grooves into three lobes.
Industry:Mining
A primitive, temporary road built along the route of a job, to provide means for moving equipment and workers.
Industry:Mining
A prism of an anisotropic crystal, commonly calcite, cut and cemented together so as to permit passage of one of the doubly refracted light rays while reflecting the other out of the train of a microscope.
Industry:Mining
A prism of an anisotropic crystal, commonly calcite, cut and cemented together so as to permit passage of one of the doubly refracted light rays while reflecting the other out of the train of a microscope.
Industry:Mining
A procedure employed to determine the best results possible in cleaning a coal by froth flotation.
Industry:Mining
