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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 core or rock sample extracted from the wall of a drill hole, either by shooting a retractable hollow projectile, or by mechanically removing a sample.
Industry:Mining
A core specimen that can be positioned on the surface as it was in the borehole prior to extraction. Such a core is useful where the general dip of the strata is required from one borehole. A magnetic method may be used to disclose the polarity the core specimen possessed while in situ. Compare: core orientation.
Industry:Mining
A core-gripping device consisting of a series of three or more serrated-face, tapered wedges contained in slotted and tapered recesses cut into the inner surface of a lifter case or sleeve. The case is threaded to the inner tube of a core barrel. As the core enters the inner tube, it lifts the wedges up along the case taper. When the barrel is raised, the wedges are pulled tight, gripping the core.
Industry:Mining
A coring bit the kerf or wall thickness of which is about one-half or less that of the wall thickness of the same outside-diameter-size standard coring bit.
Industry:Mining
A corklike device for lighting a safety fuse. When the cord is ignited an intense flame passes along its length at a uniform rate and ignites the blackpowder core of an ordinary safety fuse. Two types are made: the fast has a nominal burning speed of 1 s/ft (3.3 s/m); the other is about 10 times as slow.
Industry:Mining
A corner whose position cannot be determined, beyond reasonable doubt, either from traces of the monument, or by reliable testimony relating to it; and whose location can be restored only by surveying methods and with reference to interdependent existent corners, by mutual agreement of abutters, or by court decision.
Industry:Mining
A correction applied to observed values obtained in geophysical surveys in order to remove the effect of variations in the observations due to the topography near observation sites.
Industry:Mining
