- 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 heavy, upright timber used for underpinning in opening a station for a level in a mine.
Industry:Mining
A heavy-duty-type centrifuged pump with chrome-carbide or manganese steel liners. In silts or rounded sand grains their life is often a matter of months, but where sharpgrained sands or large gravel sizes are being handled, casing and impeller lives may be figured in hours.
Industry:Mining
A heavy-fluid coal cleaning process that utilizes a calcium chloride solution as separating medium and is applicable only to deslimed feed. It differs from the Lessing process in that the raw coal is introduced into the system countercurrent fashion, from water to separating solution, the purified coal and the waste being withdrawn in a similarly countercurrent fashion. Coal containing less than 1% ash is said to be obtained by this process.
Industry:Mining
A heavy-fluid coal-cleaning process in which a calcium chloride solution having a specific gravity of approx. 1.4 is used for the separation, which takes place in a cylindrical tank 6 to 10 ft (1.8 to 3 m) in diameter with a conical bottom, the total height being nearly 30 ft (9.1 m). The cleaned coal rises to the top where it is removed by a chain scraper and delivered to draining towers.
Industry:Mining
A heavy-liquid minerals separation process in which organic liquids of high specific gravity, known as parting liquids, are used. With sp gr 1.00 to 2.96 and very low viscosities, they serve ideally for the medium in the sink-and-float separation of solid materials. This process is used to clean run-of-mine anthracite, refuse banks, or mixtures of the two. The sizes of anthracite coal that can be cleaned are No. 1 buckwheat, and larger. This includes sizes up through broken.
Industry:Mining
A heavy-walled test tube of hard glass for examining the behavior of heated substances.
Industry:Mining
A helmet in which the crown and frontpiece are blocked out of rawhide, and the front shield is fitted with two mica windows in hinged aluminum frames. It has a twin-tubed air feed on each side of the helmet and a valve for the escape of excess and vitiated air. Air is supplied through an armored hose from double-acting bellows or a blower worked by a second person at the fresh air base. Airtightness is obtained by means of a soft leather apron secured in position about the neck and shoulders. Illumination is provided by portable electric lamps, and communication with the wearer by an approved type of mine telephone.
Industry:Mining
A heteropolar compound containing a hydrogen-carbon group and an ionized group, chosen for ability to adsorb selectively in a froth flotation process and render adsorbing surfaces relatively hydrophobic. A promoter.
Industry:Mining
A hexagonal and trigonal mineral, MoS<sub>2</sub>; polymorphous with jordisite; foliated; soft; metallic lead gray; an accessory in granites and deep veins; an ore of molybdenum.
Industry:Mining
