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drop-shaft method
This sinking system consists in the use of a cutting shoe on the bottom of a shaft lining that is being continually augmented as the shoe descends, the material inside the lining being excavated.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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