- 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 ...
That branch of mineralogy which treats of the physical properties of minerals. Compare: chemical mineralogy
Industry:Mining
That branch of paleontology dealing with the study of fossil animals, both invertebrate and vertebrate.
Industry:Mining
That component of the stress in a rock mass that acts perpendicular to the lode plane or any other reference plane.
Industry:Mining
That condition in sedimentation in which the flocs or particles are conceived to be in close contact, further subsidence occurring as a direct effect of compression resulting in the elimination of water from the flocs and interstitial spaces. The settling velocity decreases with time of settling.
Industry:Mining
That condition in sedimentation in which the particles and flocs are sufficiently close together to retard the coarse fast-settling particles while the slow-settling ones are entrapped and carried down with the mass.
Industry:Mining
That depth of cut required to completely fill the dipper in one pass without undue crowding.
Industry:Mining
That length of rope in which one strand makes one complete revolution about the core.
Industry:Mining
That marine science which treats of the Earth's water mass as a fluid and studies its physical properties of motion, density, temperature, etc.
Industry:Mining
That mechanism on a mill for lowering and raising the rolls to accommodate the distance between them to the requirements of the article being rolled.
Industry:Mining
That part of a bit containing the cutting points, excluding the points inset as reamers.
Industry:Mining
