Mineral mining

Mineral mining

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

Industry: Mining

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primary reject elevator

Mining; General mining

A refuse elevator that extracts the first or heavier reject; usually situated at the feed end of a washbox.

secondary reject elevator

Mining; General mining

A refuse elevator that extracts the second or lighter reject; usually situated at the discharge end of the washbox.

fault basin

Mining; General mining

A region depressed relative to the surrounding region and separated from it by bordering faults.

mineral province

Mining; General mining

A region in which the source, age, and regional distribution of a complex of minerals in a sediment are related.

A region nearly devoid of vegetation where erosion has produced, usually in unconsolidated or poorly cemented clays and silts, a dense and intricate drainage pattern with short steep slopes and sharp ...

physiographic province

Mining; General mining

A region of which all parts are similar in geologic structure and which has consequently had a unified geomorphic history; a region whose pattern of relief features or landforms differs significantly ...