- 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 ...
Possibly an amorphous lead rhenium sulfide found in the Dzhezkazgab copper ores, Kazakhstan.
Industry:Mining
Pouring molten metal into molds so made that it comes into contact at desired places with metal; cooling is thus accelerated, and special hardness is imparted.
Industry:Mining
Powder produced by the reduction of a metal from a solution of its salts either by the addition of another metal higher in the electromotive series or by other reducing agents.
Industry:Mining
Powder so composed as to ignite by a slight percussion; fulminating powder.
Industry:Mining
Power shovels are used for mining coal, iron ore, phosphate deposits, and copper ore. The shovels may be used either for mining or for stripping and removing the overburden, or for both types of work, although at some coal mines the shovels used for stripping are considerably larger than those used for other mining.
Industry:Mining
Powerful collector agents in the flotation process where xanthates fail.
Industry:Mining
Powerful doughnut-shaped zone of radiation 1,000 to 3,000 miles above the Earth's surface and parallel with the Equator.
Industry:Mining
