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SLOPE MINING [3 records]

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Record 1 2018-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Operations
DEF

A mine car that took coal miners to underground mines in Atlantic Canada.

CONT

For many years, underground mining in Cape Breton has taken place under the ocean. In order to get there, miners either take a small trolley called a rake down a slope to the mine, and eventually their work place, or they go down in an elevator called a cage, and then travel out. These are two methods of mining coal that were used in Cape Breton.

CONT

The equipment which transports men and materials is also of prime importance, because each must get to the working face in the shortest time possible. Therefore, we propose to ride men in specially constructed rake cars right from the surface to the face ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation minière
CONT

La télévision centrale a diffusé des images des mineurs remontés à la surface dans des chariots de mine puis installés sur des brancards et enroulés dans des couvertures.

OBS

En français, les termes «chariot de mine» et «charriot de mine» représentent les chariots qui servent soit au transport de matériaux, soit au transport des mineurs dans les galeries souterraines.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Explotación minera
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Record 2 2006-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mine Passages
DEF

The main working gallery or entry of a coal seam which dips at an angle and along which mine cars are hauled ...

CONT

Three methods, drift, slope, and shaft(or various combinations thereof), are used to gain access to coal located too deep underground for surface mining.... A slope is an inclined opening driven to work a seam with a downward inclination, or to reach from the surface to a seam or between seams.

OBS

When not open at one end to the surface, it is known as an inside slope.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Galeries et soles (Mines)
DEF

[...] galerie [en pente] débouchant au jour.

CONT

Lorsque le gîte est à profondeur modérée, on l'atteint à partir de la surface par une galerie inclinée, ou «fendue», dont la pente admissible est limitée à environ 18° [...]

OBS

Lorsque la pente est forte, c'est un puits incliné.

Spanish

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Record 3 1996-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Quarries
  • Extraction Procedures - Various (Mining)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Carrières
  • Procédés d'extraction divers (Exploit. minière)
DEF

Extraction de matériaux alluvionnaires du fruit d'une mine ou d'une carrière.

Spanish

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