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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 general term for any mineral consisting of uranyl phosphate and arsenate of the autunite, meta-autunite, and torbernite groups.
Industry:Mining
A general term for any timber, steel, concrete, brick, or stone structure erected to counteract the subsidence of the roof strata when undermined.
Industry:Mining
A general term for any translucent chalcedony containing inclusions of any color arranged in dendritic patterns resembling trees, ferns, leaves, moss, and similar vegetation; specif. an agate containing brown, black, or green mosslike markings due to visible inclusions of oxides of manganese and iron.
Industry:Mining
A general term for any translucent chalcedony containing inclusions of any color arranged in dendritic patterns resembling trees, ferns, leaves, moss, and similar vegetation; specif. an agate containing brown, black, or green mosslike markings due to visible inclusions of oxides of manganese and iron.
Industry:Mining
A general term for any translucent chalcedony containing inclusions of any color arranged in dendritic patterns resembling trees, ferns, leaves, moss, and similar vegetation; specif. an agate containing brown, black, or green mosslike markings due to visible inclusions of oxides of manganese and iron.
Industry:Mining
A general term for dark-colored mafic igneous rocks, commonly extrusive but locally intrusive (e.g., as dikes), composed chiefly of calcic plagioclase and clinopyroxene; the fine-grained equivalent of gabbro. Nepheline, olivine, orthopyroxene, or quartz may be present. Adj. basaltic. Compare: tholeiite.
Industry:Mining
A general term for diabases that have retained their ophitic structure although the pyroxene is altered to uralite. The term was originated by Palasson in 1819.
Industry:Mining
