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Mining
Of or pertaining to the process or business of extracting materials, such as ore or minerals, from the earth's crust.
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water turbine
Mining; General mining
A prime mover coupled to an alternator, using a purely rotary motion to generate an alternating current. The main types of water turbines are (1) the Pelton wheel for high heads, ...
trilobite
Mining; General mining
A primitive, extinct crustacean, occurring throughout the Paleozoic and abundant in the earlier Paleozoic periods, characterized by a segmented body divided by longitudinal ...
pioneer road
Mining; General mining
A primitive, temporary road built along the route of a job, to provide means for moving equipment and workers.
polarizing prism
Mining; General mining
A prism of an anisotropic crystal, commonly calcite, cut and cemented together so as to permit passage of one of the doubly refracted light rays while reflecting the other out of ...
Nicol prism
Mining; General mining
A prism of an anisotropic crystal, commonly calcite, cut and cemented together so as to permit passage of one of the doubly refracted light rays while reflecting the other out of ...
release analysis
Mining; General mining
A procedure employed to determine the best results possible in cleaning a coal by froth flotation.
drill-stem test
Mining; General mining
A procedure for determining the potential productivity of an oil or gas reservoir by measuring reservoir pressures and flow capacities while the drill pipe is still in the hole, ...
Sub-categories
- Coal mining (40)
- Diamond mining (39)
- General mining (41978)
- Gold mining (103)
- Mineral mining (36958)
- Minerals (696)
- Mining tools (94)
- Space mining (40)