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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 ...
Accidental lineup of disturbances on a seismogram simulating a reflection.
Industry:Mining
According to English drillers, a noncoring bit usually similar to a steel drag or mud bit.
Industry:Mining
According to Grubenmann's classification of metamorphic rocks (1904), the intermediate-depth zone of metamorphism, which is characterized by temperatures of 300 to 500 degrees C and moderate hydrostatic pressure and shearing stress. Modern usage stresses temperature-pressure conditions (medium to high metamorphic grade) rather than the likely depth of zone. Compare: katazone; epizone.
Industry:Mining
According to Grubenmann's classification of metamorphic rocks (1904), the lowermost depth zone of metamorphism, which is characterized by high temperatures (500 to 700 degrees C), mostly strong hydrostatic pressure, and low or no shearing stress. It produces rocks such as high-grade schists and gneisses, granulites, eclogites, and amphibolites. The concept includes effects of high-temperature contact metamorphism and metasomatism. Modern usage stresses temperature-pressure conditions (highest 1696 metamorphic grade) rather than the likely depth of zone. Also spelled catazone. Compare: mesozone; epizone.
Industry:Mining
According to Grubenmann's classification of metamorphic rocks (1904), the uppermost depth zone of metamorphism, characterized by low to moderate temperatures (less than 300 degrees C) and hydrostatic pressures with low to high shearing stress. Modern usage stresses pressure-temperature conditions (low metamorphic grade) rather than the likely depth of zone. Compare: mesozone; katazone.
Industry:Mining
According to the atomic theory, the smallest particle of an element that can exist either alone or in combination with similar particles of the same element or of a different element. The smallest particle of an element that enters into the composition of a molecule.
Industry:Mining
According to the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act, a temporary splice is one that does not have a rubber or neoprene jacket vulcanized over the splice and bonded to the cable jacket.
Industry:Mining
Accumulation of surface debris on the lower slopes of iron-bearing hills. The scree material may contain sufficient iron ore to make its mining an economic proposition as at Middleback Ranges of South Australia.
Industry:Mining
Accurate determinations of very low concentrations of carbon monoxide are required of samples from pits troubled with spontaneous combustion and those in which diesel locomotives are operating. This method involves the passage of a known volume of the sample first through a train of reagents for purifying and drying and then through a heated tube of iodine pentoxide; if carbon monoxide is present, proportional amounts of iodine and carbon dioxide are formed, either of which may be determined.
Industry:Mining
