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Bilharz table

A side-bump table having a surface made of a plane, endless, traveling
belt. The Corning, Luhrig, and Stein tables are similar. Liddell

bilinite

A monoclinic mineral, Fe2+ Fe3+2 (SO4 )
4 .22H2 O ; hallotrichite group; white to yellowish; in
radially fibrous masses.

billy

Aust. A name used in the Clermont district of Queensland for a bed of
quartzite that caps the coal measures.

billy coal

Staff. Miners' term for a thin, unworkable coal seam occurring above or
below a workable seam. Tomkeieff

bimagmatic

Generic term for porphyritic rocks in which the minerals occur in two
generations. AGI

bin

A container for storing material.

binary alloy

An alloy containing two component elements. ASM, 1

binary cycle

A cycle in which two different media are employed, one superimposed on and
augmenting the cycle of the other. Strock, 2

binary explosive

An explosive based on two ingredients, such as nitromethane and ammonium
nitrate, which are shipped and stored separately and mixed at the blast
site to form an explosive mixture.

binary granite

Two-mica granite.

binary system

A chemical system containing two components, e.g., the MgO-SiO2
system. AGI

bind

a. Shale or mudstone occurring in coal measures. Obsolete. BS, 11
b. To prevent normal operation of drill-string equipment in a borehole,
such as by constriction or friction created by swelling or caving ground,
settlement or balling of cuttings, an obstruction, or an offset or crooked
hole, or as the result of insufficient clearance cut by use of undergage
bits or reaming shells. Long
c. To cause to cohere; to give consistency to by means of an agent, such
as by drilling mud in a loose, sandy, or fragmented formation.
Long
d. A British coal miner's term for any fine-grained, well-laminated rock
(such as shale, clay, or mudstone, but not sandstone) associated with
coal. See also:blaes

binder

a. A substance used to produce cohesion in loose aggregate, as the crushed
stones in a macadam road.
b. A material added to coal or iron ore during the process of briquetting
or pelletizing to facilitate adhesion between the particles.
c. Corn. Beds of grit in shale, slate, or clay.
d. Streak of impurity in a coal seam, usually difficult to remove.
e. The material that produces or promotes consolidation in loosely
aggregated sediments; e.g., a mineral cement that is precipitated in the
pore spaces between grains and that holds them together, or a primary clay
matrix that fills the interstices between grains. AGI
f. Soil binder. AGI
g. A term used in Ireland for a bed of sand in shale, slate, or clay.
AGI
h. A coal miner's term used in Pembrokeshire, England, for shale.
AGI

binderless briquetting

The briquetting of coal by the application of pressure without the
addition of a binder. BS, 5

bindheimite

An isometric mineral, Pb2 Sb2 O6 (O,OH) ; stibiconite
group; yellow to reddish-brown; in the oxidation zone of lead-antimony ore
deposits.

binding bolt

See:anchor bolt

bin feeder

A worker who rods or bars ore that sticks as it passes through the bin
door. Fay

bing

To put coal in wagons or in stacks at the surface. Fay

bin gate

A device for complete shutoff or control of gravity-impelled flow of
materials from a bin, bunker, hopper, or other container.
Syn:bucket gate; bunker gate. See also:regulating gate

Bingham model

One of many rheological models of material behavior. Rheology is the study
of change in form and the flow of matter, embracing elasticity, viscosity,
and plasticity. A Bingham material is elastic until the yield point is
reached; flow occurs beyond the yield point. SME, 1

bing hole

Derb. A hole or chute through which ore is thrown.