By American Geological Institute

This new version, containing 28,500 phrases, accommodates the technological advancements and environmental rules that experience replaced the minerals so dramatically. it's the end result of a 5-year attempt incorporating not just average mining-related phrases but additionally phrases in peripheral parts, comparable to the surroundings, marine mining, leaching, toxins, automation, overall healthiness and defense. lots of those phrases now have a felony definition in accordance with legislation or rules.

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Fay b. A light, chalky deposit of calcium carbonate formed in caverns or fissures in limestone. Syn: rock milk agate a. A kind of silica consisting mainly of chalcedony in variegated bands or other patterns; commonly occupying vugs in volcanic and other rocks. AGI b. A translucent cryptocrystalline variety of variegated chalcedony commonly mixed or alternating with opal and characterized by colors arranged in alternating stripes or bands, in irregular clouds, or in mosslike forms; occurs in virtually all colors, generally of low intensity, in vugs in volcanic rocks and cavities in some other rocks.

Adventurine Spelling variant of aventurine. adverse To oppose the granting of a patent to a mining claim. , an adverse claim is made by a senior locator to exclude the part of his or her claim that is overlapped by the claim of a junior locator, when the junior locator is applying for patent. Lewis 52 adverse intent The terms "claim of right," "claim of title," and "claim of ownership," when used in the books to express adverse intent, mean nothing more than the intention of the dissessor to appropriate and use the land as his or her own to the exclusion of all others, irrespective of any semblance or shadow of actual title.

Baffles are positioned at appropriate points along the belt to stir the material so that trapped phosphate particles are given an opportunity to float. Concentrate from the first belts or rougher operation is cleaned on a second belt for further silica removal. Tailings from the cleaner belt are recycled to the rougher circuit. Arbiter agglomerate screening A coarse-fraction concentration method used in milling pebble phosphate that is based on flowing reagentized feed over a submerged sloping, stationary screen.

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