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Glossary of Terms |
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| adit | entrance to a mine |
| archon | Sigma Rho's name for its president. |
| drift | horizontal shelf wide enough to accommodate equipment to move ore from one shaft to another or from shaft to adit. |
| native copper | The ore found in the mine in its almost pure metallic state as opposed to an oxide, a sulfate or other chemical compound |
| pillar | column of rock left behind when mining out the stope to support it's roof |
| shaft | opening between levels in which the ore was hoisted up or down to a drift accessible to an adit |
| skip | the tram car used to haul ore, tools, equipment and/or people from one part of the mine to another |
| sleepers | railroad ties- the wooden members to which the rails are fastened |
| stope | the mined out area between shafts and between drifts |
| tugger | winch or small drum hoist |
| turntable | device at each level used to rotate the skip 90 degrees when moving from shaft to drift |