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  2. Soapstone - Wikipedia

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    The soft stone is easily carved and is not degraded by heating. The slick surface of soapstone allows the finished object to be easily removed. Welders and fabricators use soapstone as a marker due to its resistance to heat; it remains visible when heat is applied. It has also been used for many years by seamstresses, carpenters, and other ...

  3. Room and pillar mining - Wikipedia

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    Once one pillar fails, the weight on the adjacent pillars increases, and the result is a chain reaction of pillar failures. Once started, such chain reactions can be extremely difficult to stop, even if they spread slowly. [11] To prevent this from happening, the mine is divided up into areas or panels. [10]

  4. RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    For example, mining an ore trains the mining skill, and when the player accumulates enough experience points in the skill, their character will "level up". [23] As a skill level rises, the ability to retrieve better raw materials and produce better products increases, as does the experience awarded if the player uses new abilities.

  5. Tsavorite - Wikipedia

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    He was successful a second time in 1971, when he found the mineral variety there, and was granted a permit to mine the deposit. The gemstone was known only to mineral specialists until 1974, when Tiffany and Co launched a marketing campaign which brought broader recognition of the stone.

  6. Glossary of coal mining terminology - Wikipedia

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    A bell, bell stone or pan was a loose, roughly bell-shaped stone in the mine roof, liable to fall without warning: the cause of many coalmine fatalities. Bells were usually found in shale, but rarely in sandstone. Bevin Boys. Bevin Boys were men conscripted to work in the collieries during World War II in a scheme introduced by Ernest Bevin. [4 ...

  7. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  8. Gemstone industry in Greenland - Wikipedia

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    A total of 6,974 metres of diamond drilling was completed in 65 holes. Ruby and pink sapphire was found in 48 of the holes. At Aappaluttoq, the ruby and pink sapphire mineralization occurs in a corundum (ruby-sapphire) alteration band that exhibits trench-to-trench and drill hole-to-drill hole continuity.

  9. Outline of mining - Wikipedia

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    The hammer and pick, two basic tools traditionally used in mining for breaking rock, together form a main heraldic symbol of mining and miners. It is also used to mark the location of mines on maps. In other locations, the pickaxe and shovel fill the same purpose. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to mining: