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Definition of stockwork in English English dictionary
- A system of working in ore, etc
- a 3-dimensional network of veins or veinlets
- a mass of rock irregularly fractured along which mineralization has spread
- A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped
- Such deposits are worked in floors or stories
- This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore
- when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories
- A large number of small, closely spaced veins, often with many different orientations, is referred to as a stockwork and sometimes as a stringer zone