- 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 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
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
A surface treatment, as with calcium chloride solution, to prevent or reduce cohesion of coal particles by ice formation during freezing weather.
Industry:Mining
A surface treatment, as with oil or calcium chloride solution, to prevent or reduce the dustiness of coal in handling.
Industry:Mining
A surface underlain by alluvium, which slopes down and away from the sides of mountains and merges with a plain or a broad valley floor; an alluvial surface that lacks the distinctive form of an alluvial fan or a bajada.
Industry:Mining
A surface-set damond-bit crown molded in a die, prepared so that each inset diamond is backed by a raised teardrop-shaped mound of matrix metal.
Industry:Mining
A surface-set diamond bit with individual stones set so as to bring the hard vector direction or planes of the crystal into opposition with the rock surface to be abraded or cut.
Industry:Mining
A surficial or near-surface sheet or cap of concretionary clay ironstone.
Industry:Mining
A surrogate measure of the workplace protection provided by a respirator.
Industry:Mining
A survey in which a series of lines joined end to end are completely determined as to length and direction, these lines being often used as a basis for triangulation. It is used esp. for long narrow strips of land (such as for railroads) and for underground surveys.
Industry:Mining
