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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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Mineral mining
Overloader
Mining; General mining
A loading machine of the power-shovel type for quarry and opencast operations. It may be either pneumatic-tired or continuous-tracked. It need not turn from the face to the truck if the latter can be ...
Leucoperthite
Mining; General mining
A loamlike substance, between a resin and wax in character; C 50 H 84 O 3 ; very impure and sandy as found in a brown coal at Gesterwitz, near Weissenfels, Germany. It crystallises in white needles ...
Vibrating platform
Mining; General mining
A loading stage or structure with a double vibrating action that causes the coal or minerals to settle down in a mine car while being loaded. This settlement increases the car-carrying capacity and ...
Tram vibrator
Mining; General mining
A loading stage or structure with a double vibrating action that causes the coal or minerals to settle down in a mine car while being loaded. This settlement increases the car-carrying capacity and ...
Botanical anomaly
Mining; General mining
A local increase above the normal variation in the chemical composition, distribution, ecological assemblage, or morphology of plants, indicating the possible presence of an ore deposit or ...
Reversal
Mining; General mining
A local change of approx. 180 degrees in the direction of the regional dip.
