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Created by: mbourgaize
Number of Blossarys: 6
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Process of surface mining which involves digging and sifting through mud, sand and gravel using shovels and sieves. Alluvial deposits refer to sediment which is transported and deposited by water. It ...
Surface mining method which utilizes a sloping wooden trough or a ditch cut in hard gravel or rock as a channel, along which gold-bearing sediment is carried by a stream of water. Bars placed ...
Also called shaft mining or shaft sinking. Process of digging a deep, vertical or sloping tunnel to find ore, or for ventilation of underground excavations. It is the type of mining seen in movies, ...
Process by which metallic deposits composed of veins are explored by making deep holes on hard rock through superficial deposits, and then moving from one hole to another, across the direction of the ...
Underground mining method whereby a main vertical shaft is dug into the rock, and tunnels are subsequently driven from the main shaft. The ore, obtained by blasting, is then transported to the ...
Specialized open-pit mining technique whereby solid rock with a high degree of consolidation and density is extracted from localized deposits. Quarried materials are either crushed and broken to ...
Underground mining technique consisting of excavating the ore in horizontal slices, starting from a bottom undercut, advancing upward. The ore is drilled or blasted, the mud is removed, and the empty ...
By: mbourgaize