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The ceiling or roof of an adit or mine opening

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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