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In mining law. An open excavation where the works are visible at the surface; a place or pit where stone, slate, marble, etc., is dug out or separated from a ma of rock. Bainb. Mines, 2. See Marvel v; Merritt, 116, U. S. 11, 6 Sup. Ct. 207, 29 L. Ed. 550; Murray v. Allred, 100 Tenn, 100, 43 S. W. 355, 39 L. R. A. 249, 66 Am. St. Rep. 740; Ruttledge v. Kre , 17 Pa. Super..Ct. 495. ~ [s. 982]