- 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 readily combustible rock containing more than 50% by weight and more than 70% by volume of carbonaceous material, including inherent moisture; formed from compaction and induration of variously altered plant remains similar to those in peat. Differences in the kinds of plant materials (type), in degree of metamorphism (rank), and in the range of impurity (grade) are characteristic of coal and are used in classification.
Industry:Mining
A reading or measurement from a survey station to locate a point that is off the traverse or that is not intended to be used as a base for the extension of the survey. It is usually made to determine the position of some object that is to be shown on a map.
Industry:Mining
A reagent added to a dispersion of solids in a liquid to bring together the fine particles to form flocs. These reagents usually consist of long chain polymers, both natural and synthetic.
Industry:Mining
A reagent added to a pulp to bring about adherence between solid particles and air bubbles.
Industry:Mining
A reagent dispenser used in the flotation process. Cups, mounted around the periphery of a slowly rotating disk driven by a fractional horsepower motor, dip into a reservoir of 938 reagent and upon rising deliver a closely controlled quantity to the process, usually to conditioners.
Industry:Mining
A reamer capable of slight adjustment in diameter by means of a coned internal plug acting in a partially split length of the tool.
Industry:Mining
A reamer having a conical diamond-inset surface tapering from any borehole size at its lower (bit) end to the next larger borehole size at its upper (core barrel) end, such as EX to AX, AX to BX, BX to NX.
Industry:Mining
A reaming device equipped with three tapered lugs or cutters designed so that the drilling pressure necessary to penetrate rock with a noncoring pilot bit forces the diamond-faced cutters of the reamer to expand outward, thereby enlarging the pilot hole sufficiently to allow the casing to follow the reamer as drilling progresses. The casing is rotated with a pipe wrench while the noncoring and expansion bit is turned by the drill, and the casing is allowed to follow down the reamed-out pilot hole about 1-1/2 to 2 in (4 to 5 cm) behind the upper end of the reamer lugs.
Industry:Mining
A reaming or coring bit with an articulated steel pilot protruding about 36 in (91 cm) beyond the face of the bit. The diameter of the pilot is slightly smaller than the set inside diameter of the bit; its upper end is a piston fitted tightly inside a single-tube barrel with its attached coring bit. When lowered into a borehole in which a deflection wedge has been set, the pilot section forces the coring bit to ream out the first part of the deflected hole at a point about 20 in (51 cm) above the tip of the wedge. Reaming is continued to about 6 in (15 cm) below the wedge tip, at which point the pilot shoulder reamer is withdrawn and replaced by a bullnose or deflection bit.
Industry:Mining
