Top Slicing

The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
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The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
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Jan 1, 1925

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By means of top-slicing methods, wide veins, masses, or thick beds of soft ore may be mined, where the caving of the overburden is of no consequence. The ore is mined in a series of horizontal floors or slices, taken in descending order, from the top of the deposit. Each floor is mined in small sections, the roof of each section being allowed or forced to cave before an adjacent section is attacked. The method as used in two mining districts—Marquette, iron, and Pachuca, silver-gold—is described in the two papers following:
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APA:  (1925)  Top Slicing

MLA: Top Slicing. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1925.

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