A ropeway using a wire cable or cables. Used for conveying ore and
supplies in rough mountainous districts; a wire tramway.
See also:aerial tramway
A saw consisting of one- and three-strand wire cables up to 16,000 ft (4.9
km) long running over pulleys. When fed by a slurry of sand and water and
held against rock by tension, the saw cuts narrow, uniform channels by
abrasion. This saw is used for cutting granite, slate, marble, limestone,
or sandstone blocks. USBM, 7
See:wire sawyer
In a stonework industry, a person who operates a wire saw to cut very
large blocks of granite, limestone, marble, slate, or sandstone into
smaller blocks that can be handled on gang or circular saws. Also called
wire saw operator. DOT
Person who tends electrically powered unwinding machine that supplies wire
netting to be embedded in sheet glass. DOT
Native silver in the form of wires or threads. AGI
Several steel wires twisted together to form one strand of a wire rope or
cable. Long
A core in which the number of wires shall not be less than the number of
wires in a main strand of the wire rope, and the individual wires shall be
of an appropriate grade of steel in accordance with the best practice and
design, either bright (uncoated), galvanized, or drawn galvanized wire.
See also:independent wire rope core
Occurring as thin wires, often twisted like the strands of a rope; e.g.,
native copper.
See:divining rod
A red to yellow variety of epidote with a little manganese; in andesites
at Glencoe, Scotland. CF:piemontite
To draw off; to take out supports. Mason
Segregation of particular lands from the operation of specified public
land laws, making those laws inapplicable to those lands. Lands may be
withdrawn from all or any part of the public land laws, including the
mineral location and mineral leasing laws. SME, 1
An orthorhombic mineral, BaCO3 ; aragonite group; colorless to
milky; in low-temperature hydrothermal veins. Syn:carbonate of barium
A marker set on a property line leading to a corner; used where it would
be impracticable to maintain a monument at the corner itself.
Seelye, 2
A mark or stake set to indicate the position (approximate or exact) of a
property corner, instrument station, or other survey point. A witness may
be a rock, tree, or other object; e.g., a blazed tree on the bank of a
river to indicate a corner at the intersection of some survey line with
the center line of the stream, which, therefore, cannot be marked
directly; a stake driven so as to stand out; and a stake marked with a
station number, driven flush with or below the surface of the ground.
Seelye, 2
Satellite beacon used to mark a claim when the correct boundary post is
inaccessible. Pryor, 3
An orthorhombic mineral, Cu3 BiS3 ; gray to tin-white; at
Wittichen, Baden, Germany. Also called wittichite.
A monoclinic mineral, Pb9 Bi12 (S,Se)27 ; lead-gray;
at Falun, Sweden.
A circular magnetic separator suspended over a conveyor head pulley to
extract small pieces of tramp iron. Nelson
The gold-mining district, now usually called the Rand, in South Africa.
Nelson