- 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 process for converting beryl to beryllium oxide, based on quenching the melted beryl in cold water. The resultant frit reacts with concentrated sulfuric acid, and is steamed and agitated. The liquid, containing soluble beryllium and aluminum sulfates, is filtered and pumped to a tank where ammonium hydroxide is added. The resulting filtrate is further treated with a chelating agent to prevent impurities from precipitating upon subsequent addition of caustic soda. Hydrolysis follows, and the precipitate, beryllium hydroxide, is filtered off. This precipitate is ignited in an electric furnace to form beryllium oxide.
Industry:Mining
A process for creosoting timber (such as track sleepers) to extend its useful life. The timber is first dried, then placed in a cylinder and subjected to partial vacuum, and finally impregnated with creosote under pressure.
Industry:Mining
A process for direct reduction of iron pyrites that depends on the dissociation of pyrites in the absence of air, and in the presence of carbon, with the formation of iron and carbon disulfide.
Industry:Mining
A process for extracting alumina from bauxite ore before the electrolytic reduction of alumina.
Industry:Mining
A process for extracting and purifying nickel. The main features consist of forming nickel carbonyl by reaction of the finely divided reduced metal with carbon monoxide, and decomposing the nickel carbonyl, with deposition of nickel on small nickel pellets.
Industry:Mining
A process for extracting manganese from low-grade oxide ores. The manganese ore is leached with dilute sulfur dioxide gas in the presence of calcium dithionate solution, the manganese being recovered from solution by precipitation with slaked lime and then nodulized or sintered.
Industry:Mining
A process for making steel from cast iron; it resembles the Bessemer process except for two important differences: (1) oxygen is used rather than air and (2) instead of blowing the gas through tuyeres submerged in the bath (as in the Bessemer converter), the oxygen stream impinges on the surface of the molten iron.
Industry:Mining
A process for making steel in which oxygen is blown upon or through molten pig iron, whereby most of the carbon and impurities are removed by oxidation.
Industry:Mining
A process for making sulfuric acid. Sulfur dioxide gas (obtained by burning pyrite) is purified by electrical precipitation, and is passed over a catalytic agent to form sulfur trioxide that combined with water produces sulfuric acid.
Industry:Mining
