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United States Bureau of Mines
Sektör: 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 discredited term equal to thomsonite.
Industry:Mining
A discredited term equal to walpurgite.
Industry:Mining
A discredited term for a silver-iron sulfide, probably argentopyrite.
Industry:Mining
A discredited term for jarosite or natrojarosite.
Industry:Mining
A discredited term referring to a compound of lead, copper, bismuth, and sulfur.
Industry:Mining
A discredited term referring to massive apple-green, hydrated magnesium-nickel silicate similar to genthite.
Industry:Mining
A discrete quantity of electromagnetic energy. Photons have momentum but no mass or electrical charge.
Industry:Mining
A disease affecting the general system, characterized by chronic poisoning from inhalation of metallic fumes, with symptoms like those of malarial fever.
Industry:Mining
A disease of the lungs caused by habitual inhalation of irritant mineral or metallic particles. It occurs in any workplaces where dust is prevalent, such as mines, quarries, foundries, and potteries. Also spelled pneumonoconiosis; pneumonokoniosis.
Industry:Mining
A disease of the lungs caused by habitual inhalation of irritant mineral or metallic particles. It occurs in any workplaces where dust is prevalent, such as mines, quarries, foundries, and potteries. Also spelled pneumonoconiosis; pneumonokoniosis.
Industry:Mining