winners

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The settling ore and the crushing after the stope is empty make it difficult to maintain timbered winzes.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert

Thus not only is there less shoveling required, but fewer ore-passes and a less number of preliminary winzes are necessary, and a wider level interval is possible.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert

There are nigh 40 miles of levels and lots of winzes everywhere!”

From Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

His syndicate was finally organized, and with the money thus made available, all possible work was done for the next twelve months, on shaft, levels, cross-cuts, drifts, winzes, and raises.

From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Bolton, Charles E. (Charles Edward)

In this case the winzes would have been full of water, like the great shaft, up to the level of the adit, which would run off the surplus to the beach.

From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville