stope

• Thirty-seven metres of crosscut has opened access to the Zambranena vein about 10 metres above the historic level 3, plus access to an old stope has been made.
• Finally they turned back along the drift toward the stope, the acrid odor of dynamite smoke-cutting at their nostrils as they approached the spot where the explosions had occurred. —  The Cross-Cut
• Then Well, then Harry ran, to do much as Fairchild had done, to chuckle and laugh and toss the heavy bits of ore about, to stare at them in the light of his carbide torch, and finally to hurry into the new stope which had been fashioned by the hired miners in Fairchild's employ and stare upward at the heavy vein of riches above him Wouldn't it knock your eyes out?" —  The Cross-Cut
• The stope was deeper now than on the first day, but not enough to make up for the vast amount of ore which had been taken out of the mine in the meanwhile. —  The Cross-Cut
• The yells which were coming from farther along the stope, the crackling blows, all told that Harry was getting along exceedingly well. —  The Cross-Cut

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