Find another word for stope. In this page you can discover 3 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for stope, like: mineshaft, shakehole and adit.
The main haulage tracks are laid at the bottom of the stope, which thus forms the level.
The right branch went into a large stope with a wooden launder in the floor.
West passes a winze on the left to reach a collapsed stope.
When the roof is weak, or when it is undesirable to leave so much ore in the stopes, false stulls are sometimes erected in the upper part of the stope.
The ore below the false stulls can then be drawn out without waiting for the completion of the top stope.