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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 vertical strip placed at the side of a conveyor belt to prevent spillage or to increase capacity.
Industry:Mining
A vertical structure in sandstone, a few centimeters to several decimeters in diameter and several decimeters in length, with a structureless interior, attributed to a rising water column or a spring channel.
Industry:Mining
A vertical structure in sandstone, a few centimeters to several decimeters in diameter and several decimeters in length, with a structureless interior, attributed to a rising water column or a spring channel.
Industry:Mining
A vertical timber at the outer edge of each of a pair of lock gates, mitered so that the gates fit tightly when closed.
Industry:Mining
A vertical, overhand mining method whereby most of the broken ore remains in the stope to form a working floor for the miners. Another reason for leaving the broken ore in the stope is to provide additional wall support until the stope is completed and ready for drawdown. Stopes are mined upward in horizontal slices. Normally, about 35% of the ore derived from the stope cuts (the swell) can be drawn off ("shrunk") as mining progresses. As a consequence, no revenues can be obtained from the ore remaining in the stope until it is finally extracted and processed for its mineral values. The method is labor intensive and cannot be readily mechanized. It is usually applied to orebodies on narrow veins or orebodies where other methods cannot be used or might be impractical or uneconomical. The method can be easily applied to ore zones as narrow as 4 ft (1.2 m), but can also be successfully used in ore widths up to 100 ft (30 m).
Industry:Mining
A vertical, overhand mining method whereby most of the broken ore remains in the stope to form a working floor for the miners. Another reason for leaving the broken ore in the stope is to provide additional wall support until the stope is completed and ready for drawdown. Stopes are mined upward in horizontal slices. Normally, about 35% of the ore derived from the stope cuts (the swell) can be drawn off ("shrunk") as mining progresses. As a consequence, no revenues can be obtained from the ore remaining in the stope until it is finally extracted and processed for its mineral values. The method is labor intensive and cannot be readily mechanized. It is usually applied to orebodies on narrow veins or orebodies where other methods cannot be used or might be impractical or uneconomical. The method can be easily applied to ore zones as narrow as 4 ft (1.2 m), but can also be successfully used in ore widths up to 100 ft (30 m).
Industry:Mining
A vertical-bar graph representing a frequency distribution, in which the height of bars is proportional to frequency of occurrence within each class interval and, due to the subdivision of the x-axis into adjacent class intervals, there are no empty spaces between bars when all classes are represented in a sample so graphed. Histograms are used to depict particle-size distribution in sediments.
Industry:Mining
