- 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 single or multiple conductor cable sheathed in lead or other waterproof materials, carried in a duct beneath the surface of the ground.
Industry:Mining
A single or multi-stage reactor, generally used for gas-solid contacting, in which the solid component is a reactant or a catalyst and is in a continuous fluidized state. The gas is injected into the reactor to provide rapid and uniform mixing for reactants to facilitate heat transfer and completion of the reaction.
Industry:Mining
A single ore deposit of identical origin, age and character throughout. A single small vein is weighed and measured by the same law and entitled to the same consideration as the mother lode, and very often is far more valuable in the eyes of the miner.
Industry:Mining
A single point at which different phases of matter are capable of existing together in equilibrium.
Industry:Mining
A single point at which different phases of matter are capable of existing together in equilibrium.
Industry:Mining
A single point from which light emanates; e.g., the sun or a lamp filament, or their reflections. In the case of multiple reflections, each is a point source.
Industry:Mining
A single strand of rope or cable doubled back around a sheave so that two parts of it pull a load together.
Industry:Mining
A single strand of rope or cable doubled back around two sheaves so that three parts of it pull a load together.
Industry:Mining
A single track system of rope haulage in which a double-drum haulage engine at the unloading terminal winds the main rope on one drum. The train or trip of cars is connected to the other end of the main rope and also to a tail rope that extends to the inner terminal in the mine, around a tail sheave, and then back over idler sheaves at one side of the haulageway to the other drum at the haulage engine.
Industry:Mining
