- 行业: 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 ...
The act or process of using a Geiger-Mueller probe or counter to measure the intensity of the gamma rays emitted by the radioactive substance contained in rocks traversed by a borehole.
Industry:Mining
The act or process of using a geophysical method of systematically measuring electromagnetic waves in a specific area of the Earth's surface or in an area adjacent to boreholes.
Industry:Mining
The action or operation of burning; the continuous combination of a substance with certain elements, such as oxygen or chlorine; e.g., accompanied by the generation of light and heat.
Industry:Mining
The action taken to fill or seal the cracks or openings through which drill fluid is escaping from the borehole into the rocks forming the walls of the borehole and by which the drill fluid is made to return to and overflow the collar of the borehole.
Industry:Mining
The actual excavating tooth or point of a grab bucket, scraper loader, dragline, or excavator bucket.
Industry:Mining
The actual or visible order in which strata lie in any locality.
Industry:Mining
The actual possession of a piece of mineral land to the extent needed to give the locator room to work and to prevent probable breaches of the peace, but not necessarily to the extent of a mining claim.
Industry:Mining
