fully developed mine

fully developed mine

[′fu̇l·ē di‚vel·əpt ′mīn]
(mining engineering)
In coal mining, a mine where all development work has reached the boundaries and further extraction will be done on the retreat.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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