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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 surface on which the potential is everywhere constant for the attractive forces concerned. The gravity vector is everywhere normal to a gravity equipotential surface; the geoid is an equipotential.
Industry:Mining
A surface or contact, usually in carbonate rocks, that is marked by an irregular and interlocking penetration of the two sides: the columns, pits, and teethlike projections on one side fit into their counterparts on the other. As usually seen in cross section, it 3155 resembles a suture or the tracing of a stylus. The seam is characterized by a concentration of insoluble constituents of the rock; e.g., clay, carbon or iron oxides, and is commonly parallel to the bedding. Etymol: Greek stylos, pillar, + lithos, stone.
Industry:Mining
A surface or contact, usually in carbonate rocks, that is marked by an irregular and interlocking penetration of the two sides: the columns, pits, and teethlike projections on one side fit into their counterparts on the other. As usually seen in cross section, it 3155 resembles a suture or the tracing of a stylus. The seam is characterized by a concentration of insoluble constituents of the rock; e.g., clay, carbon or iron oxides, and is commonly parallel to the bedding. Etymol: Greek stylos, pillar, + lithos, stone.
Industry:Mining
A surface or contact, usually in carbonate rocks, that is marked by an irregular and interlocking penetration of the two sides: the columns, pits, and teethlike projections on one side fit into their counterparts on the other. As usually seen in cross section, it 3155 resembles a suture or the tracing of a stylus. The seam is characterized by a concentration of insoluble constituents of the rock; e.g., clay, carbon or iron oxides, and is commonly parallel to the bedding. Etymol: Greek stylos, pillar, + lithos, stone.
Industry:Mining
A surface or mass provided to withstand thrust, for example, the end supports of an arch or bridge. In coal mining, (1) the weight of the rocks above a narrow roadway is transferred to the solid coal along the sides, which act as abutments of the arch of strata spanning the roadway; and (2) the weight of the rocks over a longwall face is transferred to the front abutment (the solid coal ahead of the face) and the back abutment (the settled packs behind the face).
Industry:Mining
A surface or mass provided to withstand thrust, for example, the end supports of an arch or bridge. In coal mining, (1) the weight of the rocks above a narrow roadway is transferred to the solid coal along the sides, which act as abutments of the arch of strata spanning the roadway; and (2) the weight of the rocks over a longwall face is transferred to the front abutment (the solid coal ahead of the face) and the back abutment (the settled packs behind the face).
Industry:Mining
A surface provided with apertures of specified size for carrying out the operation of screening.
Industry:Mining
A surface quarry worked only in detached masses of rock overlying the solid rock; sometimes contracted to motion.
Industry:Mining
A surface structure, often incorporating storage bins, used for gravity loading bulk material into transport vehicles.
Industry:Mining
A surface that seems to prefer contact with air to contact with water. A particle (or mineral) of this sort will adhere to an air bubble and float out of a flotation pulp; 67 otherwise, the particle will not float.
Industry:Mining
