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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 measure of a hearing protector's effectiveness in reducing noise such as results from mining operations where drilling, cutting, blasting, etc. create high noise levels. Abbrev. NRR.
Industry:Mining
A measure of confidence in precision of a set of sample data. For a given numerical value of fiducial interval, the number of samples required from a given deposit to give an accurate measure of its value can be determined.
Industry:Mining
A measure of gamma-ray exposure expressed as the product of the equivalent radium content of the source, in milligrams, and the time of exposure in hours.
Industry:Mining
A measure of gamma-ray exposure expressed as the product of the source in millicuries and the time of exposure in hours.
Industry:Mining
A measure of mastery over a process of production; in concrete work, it is measured by cube crushing strength and the standard deviation therefrom.
Industry:Mining
A measure of possible flow of a standard liquid under fixed conditions through a porous medium when there is no reaction between the liquid and the solids. This measure is arbitrarily taken for isothermal viscous flow. It can be duplicated with gases if tests are so conducted that extrapolation to infinite pressure can be made; specific permeability.
Industry:Mining
