- 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 system for transmitting signals from points on a conveyor face to the operator at the control panel near the main gate.
Industry:Mining
The system in which an engine with a single drum and rope draws loaded trucks up an incline. The empties run downhill dragging the rope after them.
Industry:Mining
The system of colliery ventilation, introduced about 1760, by which the intake air current was made to traverse all the underground roadways and faces before passing into the upcast shaft.
Industry:Mining
The system of doors or shutters on or near a surface radial-flow fan for reversing the direction of the air passing through a mine.
Industry:Mining
The system with radial cracks issuing from the center of the hole as a result of the tangential stresses.
Industry:Mining
The systematic collection and processing of a very large number of samples accompanied by the proper presentation and interpretation of the resulting analytical data, usually with reference to a topographic map or other geographic coordinate system.
Industry:Mining
The systematic distribution of stone dust along mine roadways to cover the coal dust and reduce its flammability. Although stone dusting may not always stop an explosion, it is less violent with stone dusting than without. Safety regulations in many countries require that stone dust be applied either mixed with the coal dust along mine roadways or as stone dust barriers, to reduce the liability of coal-dust explosions.
Industry:Mining
The systematically arranged information describing the essential attributes (properties) of a class of mineral deposits. The model may be empirical (descriptive), in which instance the various attributes are recognized as essential even though their relationships are unknown; or it may be theoretical (genetic), in which instance the attributes are interrelated through some fundamental concept.
Industry:Mining
