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United States Bureau of Mines
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 ...
A supporting pillar mine.
Industry:Mining
A surface building at a mine where explosives and detonators may be kept.
Industry:Mining
A surface building at which explosives, drawn from the magazine, are issued and where the charges are prepared or made up.
Industry:Mining
A surface building at which explosives, drawn from the magazine, are issued and where the charges are prepared or made up.
Industry:Mining
A surface depression containing clay and evaporites in south-central Asia. Also spelled takir.
Industry:Mining
A surface drain to intercept and collect the flow of water from adjoining land, so as to prevent it from reaching a road or mine sidings.
Industry:Mining
A surface of discontinuity in sedimentary rocks that extends throughout an extensive region. It may record a significant interruption in deposition, tectonics, or erosion of older strata.
Industry:Mining
A surface on which the potential is everywhere constant for the attractive forces concerned. The gravity vector is everywhere normal to a gravity equipotential surface; the geoid is an equipotential.
Industry:Mining
A surface on which the potential is everywhere constant for the attractive forces concerned. The gravity vector is everywhere normal to a gravity equipotential surface; the geoid is an equipotential.
Industry:Mining
A surface on which the potential is everywhere constant for the attractive forces concerned. The gravity vector is everywhere normal to a gravity equipotential surface; the geoid is an equipotential.
Industry:Mining
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