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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 type of schistosity characterized by the arrangement of tabular and prismatic grains in parallel planes.
Industry:Mining
A type of secondary crusher that utilizes the gyratory principle; it has a hemispherical crushing head.
Industry:Mining
A type of secondary or reduction crusher consisting of a heavy frame on which two rolls are mounted. These are driven so that they rotate toward one another. Rock fed in from above is nipped between the moving rolls, crushed, and discharged at the bottom.
Industry:Mining
A type of seismic refraction in which the shots and detectors are laid out on long straight lines. Successive shots are taken at uniform or almost uniform intervals along each line, and successive detector spreads are shifted about the same distance as the corresponding shot points so as to keep the range of shot-detector distances approx. the same for all shots. Generally, shots are received from opposite directions on each detector spread. The distance range is chosen so that the first, or where desired the second, arrivals will be refracted from a particular formation such as the basement or a high-speed limestone marker. The proper distance is usually determined from time-distance plots based on experimental shooting at the onset of the program.
Industry:Mining
A type of seismic spread in which the shot point is at the center of the arrangement of geophones. It is commonly used for continuous profiling and for dip shooting.
Industry:Mining
A type of seismic spread in which the shot point is at the center of the arrangement of geophones. It is commonly used for continuous profiling and for dip shooting.
Industry:Mining
A type of seismic spread in which the shot point is at the center of the arrangement of geophones. It is commonly used for continuous profiling and for dip shooting.
Industry:Mining
A type of seismic survey based on measurement of the travel times of waves that originate from an artificially produced disturbance and are reflected back at near-vertical incidence from subsurface boundaries separating media of different elastic-wave velocities. Compare: refraction shooting
Industry:Mining
A type of seismic survey in which detectors are laid out along an arc so that each detector is in a different direction at roughly the same distance from a single shot point. It was used in the 1920's and 1930's to detect the presence of shallow salt domes intruding low-velocity sediments.
Industry:Mining
A type of seismic survey in which detectors are laid out along an arc so that each detector is in a different direction at roughly the same distance from a single shot point. It was used in the 1920's and 1930's to detect the presence of shallow salt domes intruding low-velocity sediments.
Industry:Mining
