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Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms

Following is a list of terms contained in the former U.S. Bureau of Mines Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms, a publication in the public...


Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms/J/1

of 0.6 in/ft (4.2 cm/m) is used by a number of manufacturers for taper pins, sockets, and shanks used on machine tools. jarosite A trigonal mineral,...


Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms/M/4

portion of the public mineral lands that a miner, for mining purposes, takes hold of and possesses in accordance with mining laws. b. A mining claim is...


Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms/J-L

local unconformity local vent local ventilation locatable minerals located location location and patent location notice location plan location survey location...


Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms/O/1

contain a sufficient tonnage of amenable valuable mineral to justify the mining enterprise. The British Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, which regulates...


Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms/C/4

days of mining in the Western United States following the gold rush of 1849, as an outgrowth of the desire of a prospector to develop a mineral deposit...


Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms/M/3

igneous rocks, containing between 60% and 100% dark minerals; i.e., rocks, the color index of which is between 60 and 100. CF: hypermelanic; leucocratic;...


Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms/S/12

coal seam or mineral deposit as a result of its removal by mining operations. The subsidence break usually extends from the face upward and backward over...


Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms/P/4

working and transport of the coal or mineral. The selection of mining methods and machines properly adapted to the local conditions is part of planning...


Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms/A/3

220,500 kg.cal/t (736 to 923 kg.kJ/t), giving a heat efficiency of 73%. apomagmatic Said of a hydrothermal mineral deposit at an intermediate distance...