- 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 ...
Steel wire rope, usually a locked-coil rope that supports the wheels of the carriers of a cableway.
Industry:Mining
Steels of plain-carbon or alloy types; they must be of high quality, which is usually attained by special methods of processing. Essentially, they are steels used in making tools for cutting, machining, shearing, stamping, punching, and chipping.
Industry:Mining
Steeply sloping openings permitting caved ore to flow down raises through grizzlies to chutes on the haulage level.
Industry:Mining
Stirred up or disturbed, such as by sediment; not clear or translucent, being opaque with suspended matter, such as of a sediment-laden stream flowing into a lake; cloudy or muddy in physical appearance, such as of a feldspar containing minute inclusions.
Industry:Mining
Stirring molten metal, ore, or other charge, using a hoelike tool or other device.
Industry:Mining
Stone from which shindles or roofing slates are made. Local variant of shingle.
Industry:Mining
Stope in which square-set timbering and its variations are employed. As a rule, the ground is broken by overhand methods, the face being advanced by successive small excavations, each one timbered before the next is begun.
Industry:Mining
