- 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 method of connecting together a number of detonators to be fired electrically in one blast. The circuit consists of a number of series circuits connected in parallel.
Industry:Mining
A method of connecting together a number of detonators to be fired electrically in one blast. The circuit consists of a number of series circuits connected in parallel.
Industry:Mining
A method of control whereby, once action has been initiated, a number of electrical circuits will automatically function in a prescribed order.
Industry:Mining
A method of cooling involving the use of steam nozzles to reduce the pressure in a water chamber so that the water boils at a low temperature; since heat is drawn from the water, it is thus cooled.
Industry:Mining
A method of crushing in which there is a series of crushers, each one crushing finer than the one preceding.
Industry:Mining
A method of cupellation using a large reverberatory furnace with a fixed bed and a movable roof. The bullion to be cupelled is all charged at once, and the silver is not refined in the same furnace where the cupellation is carried on.
Industry:Mining
A method of designing optimum extraction sequences for an open pit mine. "Cones" of material are built using an ore block as a base and economic net value of the cone is calculated. The process is repeated for each ore block in a deposit, considering cone 1232 overlaps. The term "floating" is derived from the "movement" of the cone throughout the model.
Industry:Mining
A method of determining an age in years by measuring the concentration of carbon-14 remaining in an organic material, usually formerly living matter, but also water, bicarbonate, etc. The method is based on the assumption that assimilation of carbon-14 ceased abruptly on the death of an organism and that it thereafter remained a closed system. The method is useful in determining ages in the range of 500 to 30,000 years or 40,000 years, although it may be extended to 70,000 years by using special techniques involving controlled enrichment of the sample in carbon-14.
Industry:Mining
A method of determining an age in years by measuring the concentration of carbon-14 remaining in an organic material, usually formerly living matter, but also water, bicarbonate, etc. The method is based on the assumption that assimilation of carbon-14 ceased abruptly on the death of an organism and that it thereafter remained a closed system. The method is useful in determining ages in the range of 500 to 30,000 years or 40,000 years, although it may be extended to 70,000 years by using special techniques involving controlled enrichment of the sample in carbon-14.
Industry:Mining
A method of determining an age in years by measuring the concentration of carbon-14 remaining in an organic material, usually formerly living matter, but also water, bicarbonate, etc. The method is based on the assumption that assimilation of carbon-14 ceased abruptly on the death of an organism and that it thereafter remained a closed system. The method is useful in determining ages in the range of 500 to 30,000 years or 40,000 years, although it may be extended to 70,000 years by using special techniques involving controlled enrichment of the sample in carbon-14.
Industry:Mining
