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stoping

[′stō·pər]
(geology)
magnetic stoping
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Stoping

 

operations for the extraction of a mineral from a deposit by the underground method. In stoping, a distinction is drawn between combined or gross removal of a mineral and selective removal, in which certain grades of ores, coal, intercalated rock layers, and so on are extracted separately. Mining excavations formed as a result of stoping, and also the space formed after the removal of the mineral, are called stopes; the faces of stoping excavations are called working faces. Rock minerals are stoped with the use of a blast-hole drilling unit for preliminary loosening of the rock mass.

In the USSR, stoping is mechanized: cutter loaders, conveyors, and powered support are used in underground coal mining; loaders, scrapers, and underground excavators are used in underground ore extraction.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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