- 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 device for handling dusty materials, built on the principle of a pneumatic cleaner. The system used is a suction system, whereby the material (soda ash, salt cake, cement, or powdered lime) is drawn from the car through a flexible hose into a vacuum tank designed to recover a large percentage of the dust floating in the air.
Industry:Mining
A device for hauling coal in which a chain passes from the engine along one side of the road, around a pulley at the far end, and back again on the other side of the road. Empty cars, attached to one side of the chain by various kinds of clips or hooks, are hauled into the mine; loaded cars attached to the other side of the chain are hauled out of the mine.
Industry:Mining
A device for indicating the horizontal, as a bubble, gyroscope, pendulum, or the flat surface of a liquid. It is sometimes simply called a horizon.
Industry:Mining
A device for indicating the horizontal, as a bubble, gyroscope, pendulum, or the flat surface of a liquid. It is sometimes simply called a horizon.
Industry:Mining
A device for measuring the actual torque transmitted to the drilling head and/or to the drill-rod string.
Industry:Mining
A device for measuring the difference in phase of two alternating currents or electromotive forces.
Industry:Mining
A device for measuring the flow of water. It generally consists of a rectangular, trapezoidal, triangular, or other shaped notch in a thin plate in a vertical plane through which the water flows. The weir head is an index of the rate of flow.
Industry:Mining
