Definition of Stockwork. Meaning of Stockwork. Synonyms of Stockwork

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Definition of Stockwork

Stockwork
Stockwork Stock"work`, n. [G. stockwerk.] 1. (Mining) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories. 2. (Geol.) A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.

Meaning of Stockwork from wikipedia

- In geology, a stockwork is a complex system of structurally controlled or randomly oriented veins. Stockworks are common in many ore deposit types and...
- alteration typically enclose a core of disseminated ore minerals in often stockwork-forming hairline fractures and veins. Because of their large volume, porphyry...
- are known as stockmen and ringers, (jackaroos and jillaroos who also do stockwork are trainee overseers and property managers). The Australian droving tradition...
- Gold vein stockwork in limonite, from Gold Flake Vein, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA...
- sulfide or stockwork zone, overlain by a mound of m****ive exhalites, and flanked by stratiform exhalative sulfides known as the apron. The stockwork zone typically...
- Open space filling is the hallmark of epithermal vein systems, such as a stockwork, in greisens or in certain skarn environments. For open space filling...
- in many granite intrusions where later aplite veins form a late-stage stockwork through earlier phases of the granite m****. When particularly intense...
- length of several m to km), morphology (lenticular bedding deposits, stockwork, veins, nests, complex tube-like bodies) and occurrence conditions (gentle...
- operations at Mount Emmons. Opinion in Rico, site of the Silver Cr**** stockwork Molybdenum deposit is more divided. There, land slated for development...
- mine until nationalisation in 1971. The porphyry orebody consists of a stockwork (a network of narrow veins) of mineralised veinlets, mainly in andesitic...