box-cut

07:30 Apr 13, 2015

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Mining & Minerals / Gems / Coal mining

English term or phrase: box-cut

The box-cut method will be used. In a scoping report for coal mining stakeholders in South Africa. The description is the first cut into the ground to create a box. Best translation I could found: eerste snit

Teres Pretorius
South Africa

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troggroef

Samuel Murray

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troggroef

Explanation:
A "cut" in this sense is a pit or a quarry, as far as I can tell. The box cut is a trough shaped dig that provides open-air access through soft rock to hard rock. I used the mining dictionary (Geologiewoordeboek, 1996).

Samuel Murray
Netherlands
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