- 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 system to enable high electrical discharge from the atmosphere to be conducted safely to earth by one or more conductors. The provision is very important in the case of mine explosive stores and also headgears, tower winders, and chimneys.
Industry:Mining
A system used for moving material from a quarry floor to a plant located at a considerable elevation. This system utilizes two parallel inclined tracks with a skip car operating on each track. The cars are operated by cables controlled by a winding gear at the head of the incline. The quarry trucks or cars deliver their loads to the skips through a chute at the base of the incline. A hopper at the top of the incline receives the loads from the skips and feeds the rock to a crusher.
Industry:Mining
A system used in quarries to save time in handling stone blocks and slabs. In this system, a transfer car that runs on a depressed track in front of the gangs is provided with a short section of track across the top. A gang car loaded with marble, sandstone, etc., is placed on this track and when moved to proper position is shifted beneath the gangsaw. Similarly, a gang car loaded with sawed slabs may be quickly moved from beneath the saws to the transfer car for transportation to the shops.
Industry:Mining
A system used mainly in the United States that grew up in the early days of mining in the Western United States following the gold rush of 1849, as an outgrowth of the desire of a prospector to develop a mineral deposit discovered on the public lands and to have the claim confirmed by law. The mining laws of the United States are based on this system, whereas most other mining countries follow the concession system. Compare: concession system
Industry:Mining
A system used when a continuous supply of cars must be supplied to a loading station. In this system, the empty cars are simply coupled to one end of the standing cars, which are pulled forward by a hoist with the rope attached to a clip fixed to the side of the cars. The rope is pulled back by hand for a distance of three or four car-lengths, and the process is repeated frequently as the end of the rope approaches the hoist.
Industry:Mining
A system where the winding drum is replaced by a large wheel or sheave. Both cages are connected to the same rope, which passes around some 200 degrees of the sheave in a groove of friction material. The Koepe sheave may be mounted on the ground adjacent to the headgear or in a tower over the shaft. The drive to the rope is the frictional 1721 resistance between the rope and the sheave. It requires the use of a balance rope. It is often used for hoisting heavy loads from deep shafts and has the advantage that the large inertia of the ordinary winding drum is avoided. The system has been widely used in Europe for many years, and some large projects in Great Britain are being equipped with winders of this type.
Industry:Mining
A system whereby signals can be transmitted to the hoist operator (and in some instances by the operator to the cager) for control of mine hoisting operations.
Industry:Mining
A system whereby the in situ orientation of a core sample can be reproduced on the surface. A line is inscribed on the smoothed bottom of a borehole, and its azimuth relationship with a compass direction photographically recorded. When cored and removed from the borehole, the inscribed line can be used as a guide in orienting the core on the surface.
Industry:Mining
A system whereby the methane content of the mine air is indicated automatically at all times. When the content reaches a predetermined concentration, the electric power is cut off automatically from each machine in the affected area. The mechanism is so devised that its setting cannot be altered. The system is used, mainly, in conjunction with the operation of continuous miners and power loaders.
Industry:Mining
A system which regulated colliers' wages by the ascertained selling price of coal.
Industry:Mining
