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bumping trough
An appliance for handling broken rock in flat mine stopes. A sheet-steel trough is hung from chains and arrested at one end of its swing by a bump stop, so that the ore slides forward.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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