A table listing minimum recommended distances from explosive material
stores of various weights to a specific location. Meyer
Dipping outward in all directions from a central point, as a dome in
stratified rocks. CF:centroclinal; periclinal.
See:dome
See:quarry lode
A portmanteau word from quartz, feldspar, and feldspathoids.
CF:feloids
A large brick or tile; esp., a curved firebrick used to support melting
pots for zinc and retort covers. Webster 3rd
See:quarryman
An obsolete term for a quarry.
a. A stone quarry. Standard, 2
b. Materials from a quarry. Standard, 2
A worker in a stone quarry. Standard, 2
a. An open or surface mineral working, usually for the extraction of
building stone, as slate, limestone, etc. It is distinguished from a mine
because a quarry usually is open at the top and front, and, in ordinary
use of the term, by the character of the material extracted.
See also:opencast
b. Day work pit. Also called opencast; quarpit. Pryor, 3
c. An underground excavation formed in the roof, or fault, for the purpose
of obtaining material for pack walls.
A dump body with sloped sides. Nichols, 1
Arranging the quarry layout so that pools of water do not collect in the
working area. One-half percent grade away from the face will generally
keep the floor free of mud and water. Nelson
A blasthole drill. Nichols, 1
The freshly split face of ashlar, squared off for the joints only, as it
comes from the quarry, and used esp. for massive work. Distinguished from
rock face. Webster 3rd
Masonry in which the face of the stone is left unfinished just as it comes
from the quarry. Crispin
The lowest level on which stone is loaded. Streefkerk
a. The surface exploitation of stone or mineral deposits from the Earth's
crust. Nelson
b. Removal of rock that has value because of its physical characteristics.
Nichols, 2
c. One of the effects of glaciation whereby blocks of stone, bounded
mainly by joint planes, are lifted from the bedrock and carried away by
ice. Also called plucking. Stokes
Any machine used to drill holes or cut tunnels in native rock; a gang
drill, or tunneling machine, but most commonly a small form of locomotive,
bearing a rock-drilling mechanism, and operating on a track laid
temporarily along or opposite the ledge to be cut. Standard, 2
A vein in a heading that is jointed and blocky, like granite in a quarry,
or a heading in granite.