STOPING
- process by which magmas move upward in the earth by breaking off and engulfing blocks of overlying rocks
- any excavation made in a mine, esp. from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts
- to mine or work by stopes
- the process of steplike excavation [n -S]
- the process of excavating in layers [n STOPINGS] / STOPE, to excavate in layers, as ore [v]
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