- 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 long, narrow pump designed for keeping a shaft dry during sinking operations. It is usually large enough to deal with 1,000 gal/min (3,780 L/min) from the greatest depth at which water will be encountered. A sinking pump must be slung from the surface and be fairly easy to raise and lower when shot firing takes place at the shaft bottom. Most are of the electrically driven centrifugal type and allow for additional stages to be fitted as the shaft depth increases. It may be suspended by a single-drum, worm-driven, capstan engine with a very slow speed.
Industry:Mining
A long, narrow structural trough that is bounded by normal faults; a graben of regional extent. Compare: rift valley
Industry:Mining
A long, one-hearth reverberatory furnace, heated by lateral fireplaces for roasting sulfide ore.
Industry:Mining
A long, sharp-crested dune extending in the direction of the wind that constructed it.
Industry:Mining
A long, slender, tapering, metal rod left in a hole when tamping and afterwards withdrawn, to provide a passage, to the blasting charge, for the squib.
Industry:Mining
A long, tapered, four-sided fishing tool. Used to remove a lost drill rod or other tubular piece of drill equipment from a borehole.
Industry:Mining
A long-continued, extremely slow vertical instability of the crust, as in the volcanic district west of Naples, Italy, where the Phlegraean bradyseism has involved up-anddown movements between 6 m below sea level and 6 m above over more than 2,000 yr (Casertano). Etymol: Greek "bradys" (slow) + "seismos" (earthquake).
Industry:Mining
A long-handled, plierlike device similar to a certain type of blacksmith tongs used to handle wash or drill rods in place of a safety clamp in shallow borehole drilling.
Industry:Mining
A long-handled, plierlike device similar to a certain type of blacksmith tongs used to handle wash or drill rods in place of a safety clamp in shallow borehole drilling.
Industry:Mining
A long-handled, plierlike device similar to a certain type of blacksmith tongs used to handle wash or drill rods in place of a safety clamp in shallow borehole drilling.
Industry:Mining
