- Industri: 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 lightweight type of electric locomotive used to haul loaded cars from the working places to the main haulage road and to replace them with empties.
Industry:Mining
A lightweight type of electric locomotive used to haul loaded cars from the working places to the main haulage road and to replace them with empties.
Industry:Mining
A lightweight type of electric locomotive used to haul loaded cars from the working places to the main haulage road and to replace them with empties.
Industry:Mining
A light-yellow, pulverulent modification of sulfur formed when sulfur vapor is condensed.
Industry:Mining
A limestone composed largely of the remains of calcium-carbonate-producing algae, or one in which such algae bind together the fragments of other calcium-carbonateproducing forms.
Industry:Mining
A limestone consisting of coarse, unsorted, and often unbroken shelly materials that have accumulated in place without subsequent transportation or agitation, and generally having a fine-grained matrix. It is autochthonous, unlike the allochthonous coquina.
Industry:Mining
A limestone consisting of the calcareous skeletons of corals, often containing fragments of other organisms and often cemented by calcium carbonate.
Industry:Mining
A limestone consisting of the remains of active reef-building organisms, such as corals, sponges, and bryozoans, and of sediment-binding organic constituents, such as calcareous algae.
Industry:Mining
