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Base metals

Non-ferrous industrial metals excluding precious, rare earth or radioactive metals. Base metals include copper, aluminum, lead, nickel, tin and zinc

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Babcock and Wilcox mill

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

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Base camp

Dwellings or structures supportive to the efficient exploration, development or exploitation of a resource, usually assigned for proximity or feasibility

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Basalt

A volcanic, extrusive rock comprised of plagioclase, pyroxene with some olivine

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Barium

A silvery-white, alkaline earth group element. Symbol, Ba

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Ball mill

A cylinder filled with steel balls where ore is fed for crushing. The friction of rotating steel balls, combined with the usually higher degree of hardness of the steel creates the desired effect which is pulverization, or milling of the ore

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Balance sheet

A financial statement produced by a company, usually showing assets, income, liabilities and expenses