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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 British term used esp. in Scotland for a promontory, headland, or cape, or any point or projection of the land into the sea; commonly used as a suffix to a place name, e.g., Fifeness.
Industry:Mining
A British term used esp. in Scotland for a promontory, headland, or cape, or any point or projection of the land into the sea; commonly used as a suffix to a place name, e.g., Fifeness.
Industry:Mining
A brittle wine-yellow variety of amber with very little succinic acid; lacks the toughness and ability to take as high a polish as the succinic acid-rich varieties; rarely used as a gem except for beads.
Industry:Mining
A brittle wine-yellow variety of amber with very little succinic acid; lacks the toughness and ability to take as high a polish as the succinic acid-rich varieties; rarely used as a gem except for beads.
Industry:Mining
A brittle, brownish-black resin that occurs in brown coal near Aussig, Bohemia; sp gr, 1.05 to 1.18.
Industry:Mining
A broad bench or terrace bordering a canyon, esp. in the plateau areas of the southwestern United States.
Industry:Mining
A broad division of geology that concerns itself with the processes and forces involved in the inorganic evolution of the Earth and its morphology, and with its constituent minerals, rocks, magmas, and core materials. Compare: historical geology.
Industry:Mining
