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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 liquid medium that selectively extracts the desired metal from the ore or material to be leached rapidly and completely, and from which the desired metal can then be recovered in a concentrated form.
Industry:Mining
A liquid solution of rock-forming mineral ions at sufficiently high temperatures to be considered molten.
Industry:Mining
A liquid, solid, or gaseous product, frequently waste, discharged or emerging from a process.
Industry:Mining
A liquid; C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>4</sub>S ; analogous to furan and pyrrole in its heterocyclic structure and resembles benzene both physically and chemically except for its greater reactivity. Found in small amounts (as up to 0.5% by weight) in benzene from coal tar unless it has been removed by treatment with sulfuric acid. Used chiefly in organic synthesis.
Industry:Mining
A liquid; C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>4</sub>S ; analogous to furan and pyrrole in its heterocyclic structure and resembles benzene both physically and chemically except for its greater reactivity. Found in small amounts (as up to 0.5% by weight) in benzene from coal tar unless it has been removed by treatment with sulfuric acid. Used chiefly in organic synthesis.
Industry:Mining
A list or series of metals, such that any one will be at a higher electrical potential when put in contact with any of those that follow, and at a lower potential if in contact with any metal before it in the series.
Industry:Mining
A lithographic limestone of Late Jurassic age found at Solenhofen (Solnhofen), a village in Bavaria, West Germany. It is evenly and thinly stratified and contains little clays.
Industry:Mining
A little-used term for a reverse fault formed by shear in the inverted limb of an overturned fold.
Industry:Mining
