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open-pittable

open-pittable adjective: capable of being mined using the open-pit method.

Adjective

open-pittable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being mined using the open-pit method.
    • Preliminary testing, including 180 relatively shallow drill holes, indicates reserves of 20-million tons of open-pittable ore having an average grade of 0.9 oz. of gold per ton…1986, MI1985: The Nevada mineral industry 1985, NV Bureau of Mines & Geology, page 4
    • The USBM calculated an “open-pittable inferred resource of 200 million tons grading 0.4 percent Cu, 60 ppb Au, 7 ppm Ag, and 5 ppb platinum group metals” Neubert and others, 1992, p. 146).1996, Warren Yeend, Gold Placers of the Historical Fortymile River Region, Alaska (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin; 2125), Washington: United States Government Pringing Office, page 72

Questions about open-pittable

What does open-pittable mean?
Open-pittable means capable of being mined using the open-pit method.
What part of speech is open-pittable?
Open-pittable is an adjective.

Words near open-pittable in the dictionary

  1. open-necked
  2. open-note
  3. open-notes
  4. open-pit mine
  5. open-pit mines
  6. open-pittable
  7. open-plan
  8. open-plan kitchen
  9. open-plan kitchens
  10. open-road
  11. open-shopper

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