- 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 polymeric carbohydrate composed of glucose units, formula (C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>10</sub>O<sub>5</sub>)<sub>x</sub>, making it the most abundant carbohydrate, and with lignin, an important constituent of plant materials, from which coal is formed.
Industry:Mining
A pond overflow pipe set vertically with its open top level with the water surface.
Industry:Mining
A pond, natural or artificial, for recovering the solids from washery effluent.
Industry:Mining
A popular term for a small, geodelike body of chalcedony, opal, or agate that has weathered out of the welded tuffs or lava, particularly from central Oregon.
Industry:Mining
A popular type of rotary bit used in British mining practice. It has two cutting legs, although some American and German bits employ three legs. A core is formed between the legs, which is broken off as cutting proceeds; some bits have a core-cutting device consisting of a tungsten carbide tip in the center.
Industry:Mining
A porcelain filter shaped to support filter paper on a flat perforated disk.
Industry:Mining
A porcelain-white, hydrous acidic sulfosilicate of thorium with some uranium, iron, and lead; isotropic. An alteration product of thorite. From Hybla, ON, Can.
Industry:Mining
