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United States Bureau of Mines
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 ...
A hearth in connection with which a blast is used, as in reducing lead ore.
Industry:Mining
A hearth, on the principle of the Scotch hearth, for the treatment of slags, etc., produced by lead smelting in the reverberatory furnace. The English slag hearth has one tuyere; the Castillian or Spanish, three.
Industry:Mining
A heat of molten steel that is boiling violently, and so, if poured, honeycombs an ingot with contained gases.
Industry:Mining
A heat treatment for agglomerating small particles to form larger particles, cakes, or masses; in case of ores and concentrates, it is accomplished by fusion of certain constituents.
Industry:Mining
A heat treatment process carried out in a substantially closed furnace, in which a fluid fuel is burnt to partial combustion with a gas containing 70% or more of oxygen to produce a nonoxidizing atmosphere. The treatment is effected continuously in the furnace through which the heating gas and metal are passed in opposed directions. The fuel and gas are partially burnt at the exit end of the furnace, and passed to the cooler entry end of the furnace, and burnt to substantially complete combustion so as to preheat metal entering the furnace.
Industry:Mining
A heavily shielded enclosure in which radioactive materials can be handled remotely through the use of manipulators and viewed through shielded windows so that there is no danger to personnel.
Industry:Mining
A heavy 120-hp (89.5-kW) cutter loader. The first Meco-Moore was used in a Lancashire, England, colliery in 1934.
Industry:Mining
A heavy and nearly cylindrical cast-iron head fixed on the lower end of the stamp rod, shank, or lifter to give weight in stamping the ore. The lower surface of the stamp head is generally protected by a cheese-shaped shoe of harder iron or steel that may be removed when worn-out. These shoes work upon dies of the same form laid in the bottom of the mortar or stamper box.
Industry:Mining
A heavy and sudden inflow of water into mine workings or shafts.
Industry:Mining
A heavy bar used for mounting machine drills in large drifts or tunnels, and usually holding two machines.
Industry:Mining
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