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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spiking

Mining; General mining

A term used in the United States for the operation of adding ferromanganese, silicomanganese, or other deoxidizing agent, to an open hearth bath for the immediate stoppage of all oxidizing reactions.

greet stone

Mining; General mining

A term used in Yorkshire, England, for a coarse-grained or gritty sandstone.

gumbo

Mining; General mining

A term used locally in the United States for a clay soil that becomes sticky, impervious, and plastic when wet.

A term used on the Colorado Plateau to indicate the extension of an orebody along its major axis; the average trend of ore in a particular area, or the regional trend of mineralization over a large ...

bulk volume

Mining; General mining

A term used relative to the density and volume of a porous solid, such as a refractory brick. It is defined as the volume of the solid material plus the volume of the sealed and open pores present.

water-avid surface

Mining; General mining

A term used to describe a surface that seems to prefer contact with water to contact with air. In flotation, minerals with a water-avid surface will not float, while those with an airavid surface ...