Definition of Stockworks. Meaning of Stockworks. Synonyms of Stockworks

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Definition of Stockworks

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 Stockworks 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...
- Gold vein stockwork in limonite, from Gold Flake Vein, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA...
- are known as stockmen and ringers, (jackaroos and jillaroos who also do stockwork are trainee overseers and property managers). The Australian droving tradition...
- form within the intrusive body where fracturing, cooling joints, and stockworks have been produced, which results in a permeable area. This permeable...
- minerals filling in cavities such as cracks, veins, fractures, breccias, and stockworks ****ociated with steeply dipping fault systems. There are three major subtypes...
- shallow crust from concentration of metal bearing fluids into veins and stockworks where conditions favour precipitation. These volcanic related deposits...
- 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...
- 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...
- fluid. Within ultramafic complexes, magnesites are found within veins and stockworks in cryptocrystalline form as well as within carbonated peridotite units...