Citations:gunnies

English citations of gunnies

mining sense

• 1890, Henry Marion Howe, Report on the Elizabeth Copper Mine of Strafford, Vermont, page 31:

  I have represented on the section, in red figures, the width of the gunnies as nearly as I could estimate them by the eye, as it was not practicable to obtain actual measurements except at the floors of the levels. We can therefore only say that we know that the ore body is something greater than […]

• 1892, Ontario. Bureau of Mines, Report of the Bureau of Mines, page 175:

  ... mining captain, to house the stopes, and with a large part of his force he had stulled them, filled the gunnies above with refuse and capped the whole with clay from a neighboring bed found near the swamp north. Five intermediate […]

• 1911, Mining Journal, page 811:

  At the mines of Bruay the gunnies are filled by rubbish from the surface, carried down through pipes by a current of water. To effect this, however, many preparatory works are indispensable. At Bruay the surface installation consists […]