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pay streak

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pay streak [′pā ‚strēk]
(mining engineering)
A layer of oil, ore, or other mineral that can be mined profitably.


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A common means of mining deep placers at the time was to dig a shaft to bedrock and then drift underground up and down stream along the pay streak.
Trites bulk sampled the pay streak being mined at the time at level 235 of the Cangalli shaft, and reported 27.
The Telegraph pay streak was outlined by last year's surface trenching, when gold values of up to 0.
 
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