- Industry: 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 laborer who calls out the number chalked on each loaded mine car, as it is run on scales for weighing, so that the weighmaster can identify for pay purposes the miner who loaded the car.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who charges an electric-arc furnace with metals, alloys, and other materials.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who charges an electric-arc furnace with metals, alloys, and other materials.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who compresses copper scrap into bales for use in charging refining furnaces, by operating a hydraulic ram.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who drives a draft animal at the surface of a mine to supply power to a whim (large drum on which a cable is wound) used to hoist ore, coal, or rock in a shallow shaft. Becoming obsolete.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who flattens copper starting sheets by beating them against a rigid steel or copperplate with a wooden paddle to remove folds, buckles, and creases, which tend to cause short circuits during electrolytic copper refining.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who flattens copper starting sheets by beating them against a rigid steel or copperplate with a wooden paddle to remove folds, buckles, and creases, which tend to cause short circuits during electrolytic copper refining.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who frees solidified metal castings from inverted molds of a casting wheel by prying the castings from the molds with a long steel bar to drop them into a water pit (bosh) for cooling.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who helps a pusher to push loaded mine cars over long distances and up inclines where mechanical or mule haulage is not used.
Industry:Mining
