Apr 13, 2015 07:30
9 yrs ago
English term
South Africa
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box-cut
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Mining & Minerals / Gems
Coal mining
The box-cut method will be used. In a scoping report for coal mining stakeholders in South Africa. The description is the first cut into the ground to create a box. Best translation I could found: eerste snit
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Netherlands
Netherlands
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Netherlands
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troggroef
A "cut" in this sense is a pit or a quarry, as far as I can tell. The box cut is a trough shaped dig that provides open-air access through soft rock to hard rock. I used the mining dictionary (Geologiewoordeboek, 1996).
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