Stopes

How To Use Stopes In A Sentence

• Open stopes extending upward to grass roots are not uncommon in the area, and hikers and tourists should take note of this danger.
• The remnant ore inside the old stopes, pillars (low grade material not mined before) and tailings used as backfilling are being leached with mild acid solution.
• The stopes from the 49th to the 48th level also contained datolites but not as many - an estimated 400 pounds of nodules were recovered.
• In January 1933 the company announced that it was suspending mining below the 81st level and would confine production to the hanging-wall backs left in the old stopes and inclined shaft pillars.
• For the next ten years it was leased to tributors who worked the old stopes of the conglomerate lode above the adit level.
• The mineralized vein was less than 2 feet wide, and the old stopes show extensive support timbering, necessary because of fracturing and extensive alteration of adjacent wall rock.
• As a result of this practice immense stopes, or cavities, connected by narrow drives had been formed.
• Another major development was an underground ore handling system for the drill, extraction and trucking levels associated with the stopes.
• Company geologists regularly visit stopes and development headings to gather samples, map local geology, and give direction to miners.
• Mr Stopes was clearly amused by the confusion.