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prospect pit

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prospect pit [′prä‚spekt ‚pit]
(mining engineering)
A pit excavated for the purpose of prospecting mineral-bearing ground.


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Continuing north for a further 300 meters is a 75 to 100 meter wide exposure of sheared and brecciated rocks with a lot of old surface workings and prospect pits.
Prospect pits and minor workings mark the Huichapa vein zone and its accompanying aphanite porphyry dike for approximately 1500 meters on surface.
275 Oxidized "BIF" with moderate limonite in old prospect pits approximately 800 feet west of SC 5 and 2,400 feet north-northwest of SC 1.
 
 
 
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