"hydraulic mining" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of using a high-pressure stream of water to excavate sediment and minerals from the ground. For example, "The gold miners used hydraulic mining to search for precious deposits in the land."
Hydraulic mining encompasses hydraulicking, sluicing, and educing.
Describes hydraulic mining and its ecological consequences, which grew so great that in the 1880s, a citizen's committee formed & outlawed the practice in California.
In hydraulic mining of coal the water simply breaks the coal from the seam and washes it to a collecting point.
In the hydraulic mining of gold the rebounding stream of water and mineral fragments is directed into sluices in which the gold settles behind baffles but the lighter waste matter is washed away.
Although hydraulic mining is sometimes used to mine coal underground, its primary application is on the surface, where it is a practical way to mine relatively fine-grained, unconsolidated material from placers, tailings, alluvium, and lateritic deposits.
Hydraulic mining, use of a powerful jet of water to dislodge minerals present in unconsolidated material, including mine tailings, placer deposits, alluvium, laterites (soil rich in iron oxides), and saprolites (soil rich in clay).
Hillslope erosion rates throughout the study area are relatively low when compared to more rapidly eroding landscapes such as the Pacific Northwest and notable hillslope sediment sources include highly erodible andesitic mudflows, serpentinized ultramafics, and unvegetated hydraulic mine pits.
The Sterlingville mine quickly became the largest hydraulic mine in Oregon, and possibly the entire western United States.
We investigate this within a Northern California river system with a legacy of landscape-scale 19th century hydraulic gold mining.
The proposed concept of extent of stress influence can be used to estimate the earthquake effect in hydraulic engineering, mining engineering, and carbon dioxide sequestration, etc.
This chapter describes the microseismic monitoring method of the rockburst evolution process in tunnels or large caverns in the fields of civil, hydraulic, or mining engineering.
