Mineral mining

Mineral mining

The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth for economic interests.

Industry: Mining

Contributors in Mineral mining

Mineral mining

A reddish-brown residual soil found as a mantle over limestone bedrock, typically in the karst areas around the Adriatic Sea, under conditions of Mediterranean-type climate. Also spelled: terra rosa. ...

black flux

Mining; General mining

A reducing flux composed of powdered carbon and alkali-metal carbonate.

statically indeterminate frame

Mining; General mining

A redundant frame in which the bending moments and reactions cannot be calculated from statical equations alone.

klintite

Mining; General mining

A reef limestone, particularly the massive core.

triangle shooting

Mining; General mining

A refraction type of seismic shooting used to facilitate the separation of intercept times into constituent delay times. Three profiles can be laid out as sides of a triangle. If intercept times are ...