1) Excavation in a mine 2) Excavation in a mine shaft 3) Mine excavation 4) Mine pit 5) Mine shaft excavation 6) Mining excavation 7) Ore remover 8) Steplike excavation 9) Steplike mine excavation
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steplike excavation in mining
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• (p. p.) Alt. of Stopen • (v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out. • (v. t.) To excavate in the form of stopes. • (v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
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(from the article `mining`) The openings made in the process of extracting ore are called stopes or rooms. There are two steps involved in stoping. The first is development—that ... In this method, a number of parallel entries are driven into the coal seam. The entries are connected at intervals by wider entries, called rooms, ... ...
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Spaces created in the rock where the vein is removed. Stoping is the process of removing the ore vein.
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<chemical> A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps. ... Origin: Cf. Step, &. ... <chemical> To excavate in the form of stopes. ... To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out. ... Origin: Stoped; Stoping. ... Source: Websters ...
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Stope noun [ Confer
Step ,
noun &
intransitive verb ]
(Mining) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
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Stope transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Stoped ;
present participle & verbal noun Stoping .]
(Mining) (a) To excavate in the form of stopes.
(b) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore ha...
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A step-like excavation formed by the removal of ore from around a mine shaft.
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In mining, stope is excavation for the extraction of ore stepwise, or like a staircase. In overhand stoping, the staircase is inverted, and the ore is found in the roof of the stope; in underhand stoping the ore is found at the bottom. Stoping has the advantage that such excavations require comparatively little shoring.
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The working area in a mine from which ore is extracted.
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any upward excavation made in a mine, esp. from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
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Area of mine from which ore is or has been extracted.
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An excavation in a mine from which ore is, or has been, extracted.
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An excavation created by the removal of ore and consequent widening of the drift.
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