- 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, the notable feature of which is the provision of a reversed mud flush circulation that permits uninterrupted core recovery in the rotary system of drilling.
Industry:Mining
A systematic error that is the same in both magnitude and sign throughout a given series of observations (the observational conditions remaining unchanged) and that tends to have the same effect upon all the observations of the series or part thereof under consideration; e.g., the index error of a precision instrument.
Industry:Mining
A table connected with rolling mills for laterally transferring work from one mill to the other.
Industry:Mining
A table incorporating a belt conveyor so arranged as to provide working space on one or both sides of the belt.
Industry:Mining
A table listing minimum recommended distances from explosive material stores of various weights to a specific location.
Industry:Mining
A table made of two planes having a flexible joint between them dividing the table into two nearly equal triangles, forming a diagonal line along which concentrates separate from the tailings.
Industry:Mining
A table of the general Wilfley-Overstrom-Card type, with riffles parallel to the tailings side, and a hinged portion without riffles (unlike the Card). The table top is a rhomboid, and the riffles gradually shorten as they near the tailings side.
Industry:Mining
A table of the Wilfley type, except that the tops of the riffles are in the same plane as the cleaning planes and the riffles are sloped toward the wash-water side.
Industry:Mining
A table on which a stream of finely-crushed ore and water flows downward; the heavier metallic minerals lag behind and flow off in a separate compartment.
Industry:Mining
