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A car that rides on rails used to haul ore or country rock through the mine. Skips can be used to haul ore at level ground or can be hoisted up a shaft. The skip shown here was used in an incline.
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Collar
Country Rock
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Deposit
Dip
Drift
Exploration
Fault
Footwall
Grizzly
Hanging Wall
Headframe
Hematite
Hoist
Incline
Inclined Shaft
Level
Magnetite
Outcrop
Ore
Ore Pass
Orebody
Overburden
Pillar
Pinch
Pitch
Raise
Shaft
Skip
Slope
Stope
Strike
Stull
Tailings
Timber
Vein
Winze
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