A gas powered earth moving machine capable of extending forward a bucket clad with teeth, and pulling the bucket back towards it, mechanically moving material where, and as, desired
Blog
Category: <span>B</span>
Ambient, overall residual radioactivity inherent to an area and usually natural, but also manmade
A large plutonic mass having more than 402 mi (1042 km) exposed at surface of the earth
Where folds are overturned back toward the interior of an orogenic belt
A greasy, waxy, yellow to brown radioactive mineral, (Ce,La)(CO3)F
Waste or gangue material used to fill pits, openings and trenches created by mining an orebody
Dark, igneous, low-silica rocks
The ceiling or roof of an adit or mine opening
Non-ferrous industrial metals excluding precious, rare earth or radioactive metals. Base metals include copper, aluminum, lead, nickel, tin and zinc
Similar to a ball mill, a dry ore mill in which steel balls rotate in a horizontal circle, ore is fed through for pulverization into finer grades