Stope (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
verb (used with or without object), stoped, stop·ing.
  1. to mine or work by stopes.
noun
  1. a steplike excavation made in a mine to extract ore
verb
  1. to mine (ore, etc) by cutting stopes
Stope (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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