stock-workn.
Mining.
A deposit (esp. of tin) in which the ore is distributed through a large mass of rock.
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1808 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. III. xi. 255 A Stock~werk, is a mountain-mass of greater or less extent, traversed in all directions by a very great number of small veins.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1241 The Cornish ores occur..2. in stockwerks, or congeries of small veins.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VI. 771/2 The stockwork of the German miners is to be considered as a mass of rock impregnated with metallic matters, in numerous small veins, which come together irregularly, so as to make particular parts extremely rich.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 182 Stockwork (Germ., Stockwerk). An ore-deposit of such a form that it is worked in floors or stories. It may be a solid mass of ore, or a rock-mass so interpenetrated by small veins of ore that the whole must be mined together.
1957 Mineral. Mag. 31 588 In these the tin ores occur as stockworks of topaz-bearing greisen.
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