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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 movement of fluids through porous diaphragms caused by the application of an electric potential.
Industry:Mining
The movement of the tidal current away from shore or down a tidal stream.
Industry:Mining
The movement of water under or around a structure, such as a dam, built on a semipermeable foundation.
Industry:Mining
The movement or seepage of oil through rocks wherever they are sufficiently permeable to allow such passage; of considerable importance in oil geology.
Industry:Mining
The name by which a lode is designated in the notice of location, and subsequent addition thereto is immaterial. The same vein or lode may have different names in different mining locations.
Industry:Mining
The name given to a shaking-type combination loading and conveying device, so named from the shape of its loading end and which generally receives its motion from the shaking conveyor to which it is attached.
Industry:Mining
The name given to chemical compounds that have analogous composition, similar crystal structures, and closely related crystal forms; e.g., carbonate minerals of the aragonite group--aragonite, witherite, strontianite, and cerrusite--in which the metal ions are different but the several minerals crystallize in the orthorhombic system in closely similar forms. Adj. isomorphous. Noun, isomorph. Compare: polymorphism
Industry:Mining
The name given to the molten, high-grade sulfide that drains away from the gangue residue when stibnite (antimony sulfide) is melted by liquation.
Industry:Mining
The name given to the raking strut that transfers the load from the timbering of a deep trench to the ground. These struts are provided under every second or third frame according to the type of ground being excavated.
Industry:Mining
