- 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 process of controlling single or multiple mining machines in which sensors and computers are used to replace or enhance manual control of all or portions of the formerly manually controlled machine operations.
Industry:Mining
The process of converting into or replacing by silicates, esp. in the formation of skarn minerals in carbonate rocks. Compare: silicification silicated.
Industry:Mining
The process of crushing or grinding material to reduce the particle size.
Industry:Mining
The process of decomposition of carbohydrates with the evolution of carbon dioxide or the formation of acid, or both.
Industry:Mining
The process of dipping metal components in molten tin or zinc to protect them against corrosion.
Industry:Mining
The process of discharge from a well by artesian pressure, and also the quantity of water discharged. The artesian pressure is aided by the buoyancy of the natural gas that enters some wells with the water.
Industry:Mining
The process of disruption of the structure of a crystal by radiations from contained radioactive atoms, rendering the material partly or wholly amorphous.
Industry:Mining
The process of drawing contour lines by inferring their plan position and trend from spot levels or from other contours, assuming the intervening ground to have uniform slope. Where the spot levels are sparse, the process requires knowledge of the land or lie of the seams.
Industry:Mining
The process of drilling holes in a solid rock ledge in preparation for a blast by means of which the rock is thrown down.
Industry:Mining
The process of drilling the so-called "popholes" for the purpose of breaking the larger masses of rock thrown down by the primary blast.
Industry:Mining
