Vocabulary: Mining Booms and Busts
Drifts: (Noun) The tunnels that miners blasted
Mine: (Verb) To get (as ore) from the earth
Mucking: (Verb) The hard work of loading the rock after it
had been blasted
Pavers: (Noun) Pieces of quartzite cut smooth and narrow and
fit together to create a smooth surface for city streets
Quarry: (Noun) A mine that is open to the sky, without
underground tunnels
Quartzite: (Noun) Super hard, pink stone, used in the
construction of buildings and streets in the late 1800s
Shafts: (Noun) Passages that went up and down, in mines, if
they went clear to the surface
Stope: (Noun) The place where the rock was blasted and loaded
Uranium: (Noun) Used to fuel nuclear power plants responsible for
producing electricity, in the 1950s
Winzes: (Noun) Passages that went up and down, in mines, that
did NOT go to the surface
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