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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 branch of physics that deals with the characteristics of fluids at rest and esp. with the pressure in a fluid or exerted by a fluid on an immersed body. Compare: hydrodynamics.
Industry:Mining
A branch of science that deals with practical applications, such as the transmission of energy or the effects of flow of water or other liquid in motion.
Industry:Mining
A branch of soil mechanics involving the drilling and testing of the deposits underlying a proposed foundation. It includes the estimation of bearing capacities, settlements, and the most suitable type of foundation for the prevailing soil conditions.
Industry:Mining
A brass-yellow metallic mineral with dark yellow streak; possibly clausthalite with umangite.
Industry:Mining
A brass-yellow to bronze-yellow rhombohedral mineral: NiS. It usually has traces of cobalt, copper, and iron, and is often tarnished. Millerite generally occurs in fine hairlike or capillary crystals of extreme delicacy, chiefly as nodules in clay ironstone.
Industry:Mining
A brass-yellow to bronze-yellow rhombohedral mineral: NiS. It usually has traces of cobalt, copper, and iron, and is often tarnished. Millerite generally occurs in fine hairlike or capillary crystals of extreme delicacy, chiefly as nodules in clay ironstone.
Industry:Mining
A brass-yellow to bronze-yellow rhombohedral mineral: NiS. It usually has traces of cobalt, copper, and iron, and is often tarnished. Millerite generally occurs in fine hairlike or capillary crystals of extreme delicacy, chiefly as nodules in clay ironstone.
Industry:Mining
A brass-yellow to bronze-yellow rhombohedral mineral: NiS. It usually has traces of cobalt, copper, and iron, and is often tarnished. Millerite generally occurs in fine hairlike or capillary crystals of extreme delicacy, chiefly as nodules in clay ironstone.
Industry:Mining
A Brazilian term used in the plateau region of Bahia for a comparatively coarse, claycemented, ferruginous conglomerate in which diamonds are found.
Industry:Mining
A break in the continuity of the water film upon a metal when it is withdrawn from a bath. Compare: wetting.
Industry:Mining
