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...
- are known as stockmen and ringers, (jackaroos and jillaroos who also do stockwork are trainee overseers and property managers). The Australian droving tradition...
- alteration typically enclose a core of disseminated ore minerals in often stockwork-forming hairline fractures and veins. Because of their large volume, porphyry...
- Gold vein stockwork in limonite, from Gold Flake Vein, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA...
- overburden contained significant amounts of gold and silver, while the stockwork mineralisation had a high copper content. In 1966, the Rio Tinto PatiƱo...
- length of several m to km), morphology (lenticular bedding deposits, stockwork, veins, nests, complex tube-like bodies) and occurrence conditions (gentle...
- 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...
- three different orientations. Quartz and quartz-feldspar veins form a stockwork with minor mineralisation, whilst greisen bordered veins are found in...
- copper deposits, where many intersecting small veins of molybdenite form a stockwork in an altered quartz monzonite porphyry. Like other porphyry-type ore...