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- Title: Dictionary of Mining Mineral and Related Terms -Second Edition
- Author: Staff of the U.S. Bureau of Mines
- Publisher: U.S. Departement of the Interior
- Pages: 3660
Technological developments and environmental laws and regulations that affect mining have proliferated during the past 25 years. Concurrently, the need for a modern mining dictionary has grown–one that incorporates not only standard mining-related terms but also terms in peripheral areas, such as the environment, pollution, automation, health and safety. The new edition of the Dictionary of Mining and Mineral Related Terms is the culmination of a 5-year effort between the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the American Geological Institute (USBM CONTRACT NUMBER J0101017) that will serve the needs of those engaged in minerals-related activities. It is organized to aid the user in appreciating the essential role that minerals and their products play in our quality of life.
The Bureau’s development of mining dictionaries dates back to Albert Fay’s Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry, which first appeared in December 1918. That glossary contained about 18,000 terms. In 1968, the Bureau published A Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms, edited by Paul W. Thrush, with about 55,000 terms. The 1968 dictionary contained many new mining terms and terms from such related areas as metallurgy, ceramics, and glassmaking. That edition was as complete as possible with regard to technical and regional terms, historical terms, foreign terms that attained general usage in the United States, and terminology from the entire English-speaking world. For the past three decades that work has stood as the definitive authority on mineral-related terms.
The 1996 edition reflects a departure from the previous one in scope and in format. This edition, containing some 28,500 terms, is not meant to be exhaustive in its coverage. It focuses on mining-related terms and excludes such related categories as ceramics, glass, metallurgy, petroleum, and other specialized disciplines. Geological terms which relate to mining are included, as are minerals which have a commercial value or which are associated with such minerals. Many chemicals and materials that are not usually connected with mining or minerals processing do not appear, nor do the chemical elements unless they are classified as minerals. Abbreviations and acronyms have largely been excluded, because they usually are explained and defined within the context of an individual report. The front material, however, includes a list of abbreviations used in the definitions. New terms on marine mining, leaching, and automation appear in this edition as do a plethora of pollution and environmental terms, many of which have a legal definition based on law or regulation.