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  2. Amateur geology - Wikipedia

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    Amateur geology or rock collecting (also referred to as rockhounding in the United States and Canada) is the non-professional study and hobby of collecting rocks and minerals or fossil specimens from the natural environment. [1] [2] In Australia, New Zealand and Cornwall, the amateur geologists call this activity fossicking. [3]

  3. Tunnel construction - Wikipedia

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    Tunnel Construction. Tunnels are dug in types of materials varying from soft clay to hard rock. The method of tunnel construction depends on such factors as the ground conditions, the ground water conditions, the length and diameter of the tunnel drive, the depth of the tunnel, the logistics of supporting the tunnel excavation, the final use and shape of the tunnel and appropriate risk management.

  4. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    The real element 99, einsteinium, has no such qualities. Element 115 Ufology, various works Widely known within the sci-fi and UFO community; since, according to ufologist Bob Lazar, it is used by alien engines to generate anti-gravity and propulsion. The real element 115 is moscovium, a synthetic element with an extremely short half-life ...

  5. Underground hard-rock mining - Wikipedia

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    This region is also the location of the harshest conditions for hard rock mining, with air temperatures of up to 45 °C (113 °F). However, massive refrigeration plants are used to bring the temperature down to around 28 °C (82 °F). The deepest inactive hard rock mine in North America is the Empire mine in Grass Valley California. Closed in ...

  6. Analysis of controlled deformation in rocks and soils

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    Drilling of the tunnel face anchors, Val di Sambro Tunnel, Italy. The Analysis of Controlled Deformation in Rocks and Soils, translated from Italian Analisi delle Deformazioni Controllate nelle Rocce e nei Suoli (ADECO-RS), also known as The New Italian Tunneling Method (NITM), [1] is a modern tunnel design and construction approach.

  7. The Best Snowblowers for Digging Yourself Out This Winter - AOL

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  8. Underground rocket - Wikipedia

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    An underground rocket or rocket drill is a device for rapidly drilling holes through soil and rock of varying composition at rates up to 1 metre per second [1] [2] by utilising supersonic jets of hot gases. It was developed by Russian engineer Mikhail Tsiferov in 1948.

  9. Scientific drilling - Wikipedia

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    Scientific drilling into the Earth is a way for scientists to probe the Earth's sediments, crust, and upper mantle.In addition to rock samples, drilling technology can unearth samples of connate fluids and of the subsurface biosphere, mostly microbial life, preserved in drilled samples.