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Term |
Description |
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Adit |
A tunnel driven usually for the drainage of mine water, or
access into a mine from the side of a hill |
|
Bob |
The beam on a Cornish Engine |
|
Balance Bob |
A rocking beam weighted to counter balance the weight of the
pump rods |
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Crosscourse |
A fissure in the rock, with or without any metallic
content, cutting across the usual direction of the main fissures and lodes
or veins |
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Cross-cut |
A tunnel driven at right angles to the usual strike of the
lodes or veins |
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Cutting Down |
Widening the original cross section of a shaft or drive |
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Drawing Water |
Baling water |
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Drive |
A tunnel driven along the strike of the lode |
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Fathom |
A measurement of 6 feet in the Imperial system. (1.8288
metres) |
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Holing through |
Making a connection between two underground workings |
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Kibble |
An egg shaped bucket used for hoisting rock |
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Level |
The vertical distance below a datum line at which a tunnel
or drive is driven. The datum line is usually taken as the level at
the shaft collar or adit. |
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Lode |
The term for a vein or fissure containing the ore of the
metal being mined |
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Pare |
A team, group, gang of miners with a leader. |
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Penthouse |
A timber platform built across a shaft to protect those
working in the shaft bottom. |
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Pentice |
Another name for Penthouse |
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Pitman |
The man responsible for all pumping gear in the mine. |
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Plat |
Usually denotes a flat area. A typical location is the
area connecting a shaft with a drive (shaft station), where the ore can be
transferred into kibbles for hoisting to surface |
|
Plat Sollars |
Timber planks put down at a plat for the storage and
transfer of ore. A timber platform in a ladderway. |
|
Raise |
A vertical or inclined tunnel driven upwards between levels
for the purpose of stoping, access and ventilation. |
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Shaft |
A vertical or inclined tunnel from surface for the
conveyance of men, materials, hoisting ore, pumping water and providing
ventilation. |
|
Shaft Collar |
The top of a shaft. |
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Sett |
The area of land registered to be mined by a particular
mining company. |
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Sinking |
The work in excavating a shaft |
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Skip |
A container for hoisting rock usually running on guide rails |
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Skip Road |
The compartment in a shaft in which the skip travels |
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Stamps |
Early rock crushing machines powered by waterwheel or steam. |
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Stope |
Ore production area in a mine |
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Stull |
A timber support |
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Trammer |
A miner who loads ore into tram cars and pushes them to the
shaft for loading into kibble or skip |
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Tributer |
A miner working by a system of payment based on value of ore
mined |
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Tut Worker |
A miner working by a system of payment based on results, for
example per fathom advanced, per ton. |
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Whim |
A hoist or winder powered by horse or steam |
|
Winze |
A vertical or inclined shaft connecting two levels
underground for the purposes of stoping, access and ventilation. |
