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lost circulation
The condition during rotary drilling when the drilling mud escapes into porous, fractured, or cavernous rocks penetrated by the borehole and does not return to the surface.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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