- Industria: Mining
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- Company Profile:
The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
A laborer who helps a pusher to push loaded mine cars over long distances and up inclines where mechanical or mule haulage is not used.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who makes slurry for use by furnace sprayer, mixing specified amounts of silica, clay, and water in large drums with air-pressure hose.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who regulates flow of tailings, through flumes or pipes (mixture of waste materials and water resulting from treatment of ore for recovery of valuable minerals) in back filling (filling of working places from which all ore has been mined) in such manner that water will be drawn off and the sand left for filling purposes.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who relines bottoms of ingot soaking pits with coke dust to retard formation of oxide scale on hot ingots.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who removes blue powder and ash residue from retorts after molten zinc has been tapped.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who removes blue powder and ash residue from retorts after molten zinc has been tapped.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who removes iron from cars, sometimes breaks it, and piles and classifies it according to grade.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who removes metal pigs from molds manually and stamps heat numbers on pigs with hammer and punch.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who removes samples of crushed ore, concentrates, or tailings at various stages of processing, and puts them in labeled containers for laboratory analysis.
Industry:Mining
A laborer who removes samples of crushed ore, concentrates, or tailings at various stages of processing, and puts them in labeled containers for laboratory analysis.
Industry:Mining
