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 relative term applied to sedimentary beds variously defined as more than 2.5 in (6.4 cm) to more than 40 in (100 cm) in thickness; specif. said of a bed whose thickness is in the range of 2 to 4 ft ...

wash sale

Mining; General mining

A practice in which promoters, through the connivance of brokers who pretend to carry through transactions and thus obtain false quotations, create a fictitious flurry of activity in the stock ...

desiliconizing

Mining; General mining

A practice of jetting oxygen into pig iron before it is charged into the steel furnace; this oxidizes and removes most of the silicon.

carbon-in-pulp leaching

Mining; General mining

A precious metals leaching technique in which granular activated carbon particles much larger than the ground ore particles are added to the cyanidation pulp after the precious metals have been ...