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air-lift dredge
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use in marine mining
- In mining: Marine beaches and continental shelves
Also effective are air-lift dredges, which operate by injecting compressed air into a submerged pipe at about 60 percent of the depth of submergence. This reduces the density of the fluid column inside the pipe so that, if the top of the pipe is not too far above…
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