- Industry: Mining
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
One engaged in coal bootlegging. Applies to the worker in bootleg holes as well as the worker who cleans the coal in a small, impermanent breaker, and the trucker who conveys the coal to market. Bootleggers call themselves independent miners.
Industry:Mining
One fissure of a system of fissures that originated at the same time from the same causes as other fissures in the same system. Cognate may similarly apply to fractures and joints.
Industry:Mining
One from which the normal water content has been evaporated, usually by natural processes.
Industry:Mining
One in which an arc is struck between an electrode and the material charged into the furnace.
Industry:Mining
One in which an increasing measured value in the input signal produces an increasing controller output, and vice versa.
Industry:Mining
One in which clay, or other slip, is poured into plaster molds that absorb the water, leaving a body the shape of the mold.
Industry:Mining
One in which compressed air or steam, applied in pulses, drives out water entering the pump chamber between pulses, a nonreturn valve preventing reverse flow.
Industry:Mining
One in which connection between drive and driven member is provided by electromagnetic force.
Industry:Mining
One in which different parts, or stages, of the sample are reached by differing methods.
Industry:Mining
