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General mining related terms and definitions in minerals and related activities.
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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 the train of a ...
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 the train of a ...
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, the well is still ...
compensation method
Mining; General mining
A procedure for determining the voltage difference between two points in the ground by balancing against a voltage that is adjusted in phase and amplitude to effect the compensation.
Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller method
Mining; General mining
A procedure for the determination of the total surface area of a powder or of a porous solid by measurement of the volume of gas (usually N 2 ) adsorbed on the surface of a known weight of the ...
overcasting
Mining; General mining
A procedure used in certain mining activities including strip mining and in some heavy construction work such as channel excavation. Overcasting may be performed in a simple operation consisting of ...
