- 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 process for making wrought iron directly from iron ore, without the previous production of pig iron.
Industry:Mining
A process for manufacturing alumina, Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>. The raw material, such as clay or anorthosite, is sintered with limestone and soda ash to form sodium aluminate and calcium silicate. This sinter is then leached with water, caustic soda solution, or sodium aluminate liquor to dissolve the soluble sodium aluminate. The resulting slurry is then filtered, and the liquor is decomposed as in the Bayer process or is treated with carbon dioxide to precipitate hydrated alumina. When operated in conjunction with the Bayer process to recover alumina and soda from red mud, it is called the combination process.
Industry:Mining
A process for manufacturing steel, either acid or basic, according to the lining of the reverberatory furnace, in which selected pig iron and malleable scrap iron are melted, with the addition of pure iron ore. The latter, together with the air, contributes to the oxidation of the silicon and carbon in the melted mass. The final deoxidation is sometimes produced by the addition of a small quantity of aluminum or ferromanganese, which at the same time desulfurizes and recarburizes the metal to the required extent.
Industry:Mining
A process for manufacturing white lead in which softened and desilverized lead anodes, preferably containing some bismuth, are placed in the Sperry cells. Direct current dissolves the lead from the anodes, and carbon dioxide is used to precipitate white lead (basic lead carbonate) from the solution. The Sperry process slime, which contains the impurities from the anodes, is washed, dried, and melted to an impure bismuth bullion, which goes to the bismuth refinery.
Industry:Mining
A process for protecting the inside of cast-iron pipes with a coating of sand and bitumen.
Industry:Mining
A process for recovering gold by leaching the pulped gold ore with a solution of 0.2% to 0.8% potassium cyanide, KCN, and then with water. The gold is obtained from this solution by precipitation on zinc or aluminum, or by electrolysis.
Industry:Mining
A process for reducing high-moisture-content lignite from up to 40% moisture to about 10% moisture by pulverizing the raw coal, pelletizing the 14-mesh top size, thermally drying, and then mixing with a binder. The final product exhibits good handling and storage properties, and resists spontaneous combustion.
Industry:Mining
A process for separating copper, and in part silver, from gold by fusing with sulfur or with antimony sulfide, obtaining copper or silver sulfide.
Industry:Mining
A process for separating silver from lead in which the molten lead is slowly cooled, so that crystals poorer in silver solifidy out and are removed, leaving the melt richer in silver.
Industry:Mining
A process for separating the copper and nickel in the matte obtained by Bessemerizing. The matte, which consists of copper-nickel sulfides, is fused with sodium sulfide, and a separation into two layers, the top rich in nickel and the bottom rich in copper, is obtained. Also known as top-and-bottom process.
Industry:Mining
