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...
- in many granite intrusions where later aplite veins form a late-stage stockwork through earlier phases of the granite m****. When particularly intense...
- 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...
- 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...
- operations at Mount Emmons. Opinion in Rico, site of the Silver Cr**** stockwork Molybdenum deposit is more divided. There, land slated for development...
- early years working with horses and cattle, developing his expertise in stockwork and bushcraft, skills which would later serve him well. In 1856, at the...
- shallow crust from concentration of metal bearing fluids into veins and stockworks where conditions favour precipitation. These volcanic related deposits...