- Industry: 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 device used to measure precipitation (melted snow, sleet, or hail as well as rain). It consists of a receiving funnel, a collecting vessel, and a measuring cylinder.
Industry:Mining
A device used to measure the passage of current past a probe on each blade of a propeller type, or each cup of a price-type meter by detecting the change of electrical resistance between that probe and a distant electrode.
Industry:Mining
A device used to produce a vertical line between a survey instrument and the reference point over (or sometimes under, in underground work) which it is set. Special plumblines are used in a vertical shaft to transfer a fixed or an azimuth angle from the surface to underground workings for the purpose of orientation. Also known as plumb bob; plummet.
Industry:Mining
A device used to reduce the volume of a sample consisting of a belled, rectangular container, the bottom of which is fitted with a series of narrow slots or alternating chutes designed to cast material in equal quantities to opposite sides of the device.
Industry:Mining
A device used with certain types of belt conveyors for the taking up or storage of belt during reversible operation.
Industry:Mining
A device utilizing a rotating field of magnetic force to induce a vigorous rotary movement in a small magnetized bar totally enclosed in a polythene or glass tube, and placed in the liquid to be stirred.
Industry:Mining
A device which measures only the density of the magnetic components of a slurry. This electromagnetic sensing unit is mounted on a section of rubber or stainless-steel pipe which is installed as a section of the slurry-carrying pipeline. All components are exterior to the pipe, and there is no obstruction to flow. The pipe coil is used widely in magnetic taconite and heavy-media plants. By combining this device with other instruments, it is possible to continuously measure the ore-to-media ratio.
Industry:Mining
A device, as a fork, for supporting a continuous series of well-boring rods or tubes while raising or lowering them in the hole.
Industry:Mining
A device, formerly used to provide light for miners at work, in which flints on a revolving wheel produce a shower of sparks incapable of igniting combustible gases.
Industry:Mining
A device, operated by an electric current, and causing by its operation abrupt changes in an electrical circuit (making or breaking the circuit, changing of the circuit connections, or variation in the circuit characteristics).
Industry:Mining
