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General mining
General mining related terms and definitions in minerals and related activities.
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stunning
Mining; General mining
A quarry worker's term for the formation of fractures caused by the cutting bars of a channeling machine striking the rock with excessively heavy blows.
pitch off
Mining; General mining
A quarry worker's term for trimming an edge of a block of stone with a hammer and set.
beef
Mining; General mining
A quarry worker's term, used originally in Purbeck, southern England, for thin, flat-lying veins or layers of fibrous calcite, anhydrite, gypsum, halite, or silica, occurring along bedding planes of ...
monoclinic block
Mining; General mining
A quarryman's term for blocks with two parallel sets of sides at right angles and one parallel set not at right angles.
bird's-eye slate
Mining; General mining
A quarryman's term for slate containing abundant deformed or squeezed concretions.
