stopes in English

verb
1
(in mining) excavate a series of steps or layers in (the ground or rock).
They financed the shaft and the equipment and they were away, sinking, drifting, and stoping , all at the same time, just as Rick laid it out.
noun
1
a steplike part of a mine where minerals are being extracted.
By this time the mine had three shafts, many large stopes and hundreds of metres of drives.

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1. Method and machine for excavating drifts, tunnels, stopes, caverns or the like

2. Automatic control of a machine used for excavating drifts, tunnels, stopes, caverns or the like

3. Over the years, several studies have been reported on the pressure and stresses in Backfilled stopes by

4. At Dolaucothi they stoped out the veins and drove adits through bare rock to drain the stopes.

5. By 2010, Bellissima was well established, and still distributing free coffee-flavored condoms with the sponsorship of Marie Stopes International.

6. Evaluating the interaction between Backfilled stopes and the surrounding rock mass is a vital issue during secure backfill application and stope stability analysis

7. MARRIED LOVE MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES One group—which includes most of the female Ascetics—hates Cupid because he has never shown to them any favour

8. ‘For the next ten years it was leased to tributors who worked the old stopes of the conglomerate lode above the Adit level.’ ‘The area has several Adits and numerous small pits and cuts.’ ‘Two shafts and an Adit were ultimately driven, but Dunham reported that recorded output of …