- 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 rod coupling designed for use on wire-line drill rods.
Industry:Mining
A rod coupling having a considerably larger outside diameter than the drill rods to which it is threaded, such as BW rod outside diameter with AW rod threads.
Industry:Mining
A rod coupling having a considerably larger outside diameter than the drill rods to which it is threaded, such as BW rod outside diameter with AW rod threads.
Industry:Mining
A rod or bolt having an eye or loop at one end and threaded at the other end.
Industry:Mining
A rod or tool for lining a newly made coal shot hole with clay to seal up any breaks in the walls of the hole. The hole is filled with clay to about one-third of its length. The claying bar is driven in by hammer to the limit and rotated by a tommy bar in the eyelet at the outer end of the bar.
Industry:Mining
A rod slide equipped with rollers that contact the rods and over which the rods roll on being pulled or lowered into an angle borehole.
Industry:Mining
A rod-to-feed-screw sub or rod-to-drive-rod sub by means of which the drill rods are coupled directly to the feed screw or drive rod of the diamond-drill swivel head, and the chuck is discarded or eliminated.
Industry:Mining
