(plural only) The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (has been) worked.
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Sentence Examples
For deep workings the milling method is usually employed, in which the ore is excavated in funnel-shaped pits, each of which connects with underground haulage roads by a shaft.
I was less critical than my wife on the slow workings of the law.
It was Blackie Rowland's old workings, back during the war, Roger answered.
The Roman workings too, to judge from similar finds, seem to have been considerable.
The theist believes that he can further trace many incomplete workings of the monothesitic instinct in the history of religion.