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Mineral mining
The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth for economic interests.
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Plastic igniter cord
Mining; General 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 ...
Lost corner
Mining; General 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 ...
Bouguer correction
Mining; General mining
A correction made to gravity data for the attraction of the rock between the station and the datum elevation (commonly sea level); or, if the station is below the datum elevation, for the rock ...
Additive
Mining; General mining
A correction applied to times of seismic reflections measured from an arbitrary time origin. The additive is normally applied for the purpose of translating the time origin to correspond to the datum ...
Topographic correction
Mining; General 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.
Terrain correction
Mining; General 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.
