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Created by: mbourgaize
Number of Blossarys: 6
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, ...
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 ...
Mining technique used to extract water soluble mineral components, from underground deposits by pumping water down wells and removing the solution created. It is a form of chemical mining. Source: ...
Technique used when the ore is close to the surface but has various layers of rock and soil on top of it. After the layers are removed, the mineral bed is blasted, breaking it up to expose the ore. ...
Surface mining technique whereby the ore bearing rocks are exposed by creating horizontal terraces in circular step formations by means of blasting and digging. The debris is then washed to obtain ...
Underground mining technique employed when there are gem bearing rocks, as an outcrop, close to the surface. A tunnel is dug from the surface, by blasting or using pick axes, to remove the ...
By: mbourgaize