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yellow copper ore

See:chalcopyrite

yellow dog

Field name for a drill tripod or derrick lamp, consisting of a metal
container with two spouts holding cotton wicks, on which burning oil gives
a very yellow light. Long

yellow earth

a. Impure yellow ocher. Webster 3rd
b. Loess of northern China.

yellow gravel

Eng. The lower subdivision of the Aptian sponge gravel; Faringdon,
Berkshire. Arkell

yellow ground

Oxidized kimberlite of yellowish color found at the surface of diamond
pipes (e.g., South Africa), above the zone of blue ground. AGI

yellow heat

A division of the color scale. generally given as about 2,000 degrees F
(1,090 degrees C).

yellow lead ore

See:wulfenite

yellow ocher

a. A mixture of limonite usually with clay and silica. Used as a pigment.
Webster 3rd
b. A moderate orange yellow that is yellower and darker than deep chrome
yellow. Webster 3rd
c. See:goethite; limonite.

yellow ore

See:carnotite; chalcopyrite.

yellow ozokerine

A product resembling vaseline, but less homogeneous; produced from crude
ozokerite. Fay

yellow pyrite

See:chalcopyrite

yellow ratsbane

See:orpiment

yellow sands

Eng. The basal part of the Permian, Durham. Arkell

yellow tellurium

See:sylvanite

yenite

A rejected syn. for ilvaite. CTD

yield

a. The proportion of coal or ore obtained in mining; the product of a
metallurgical process; extraction; recovery. Fay
b. The percentage of "run-of-mine" material that is marketable.
Hudson
c. The amount of a product obtained from any operation expressed as a
percentage of the feed material. BS, 5

yielding arch

Steel arch installed in an underground mine. Arches are employed to
support loads caused by changing ground movement or faulted and fractured
rock. They are designed so that when the ground load exceeds the design
load of the arch as installed, yielding takes place in the joint of the
arch, permitting the overburden to settle into a natural arch of its own,
thus tending to bring all forces into equilibrium. Lewis

yielding floor

A soft floor that heaves and flows into open spaces when subjected to
heavy pressure from packs or pillars. See also:creep

yielding prop

An adjustable steel prop that incorporates a sliding or flexible joint
that comes into operation when roof pressure exceeds a set load or value.
See also:hydraulic chock; hydraulic prop. Nelson

yielding support

A support that incorporates a sliding or flexible joint or stilt to
accommodate early pressure and thus delays damage and distortion of the
support. Friction or hydraulic devices may be used so that a support, when
subjected to a load above its set load, yields mechanically rather than by
distorting. See also:stilt

yield loss

The difference between the actual yield of a product and the yield
theoretically possible (based on the reconstituted feed) of a product with
the same properties (usually percentage of ash). Also called washing
error. BS, 5