Stamp Battery (Noun)
Meaning
A series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The old mine used a stamp battery to crush the ore into smaller pieces for processing.
- After the ore was hauled to the surface, it was fed into the stamp battery for crushing.
- The stamp battery was an essential part of the mining process, allowing for efficient extraction of minerals.
- To increase efficiency, the stamp battery was operated continuously, with workers tending to it 24 hours a day.
- A series of heavy iron stamps in the stamp battery raised and fell in sequence, pounds of rock into smaller fragments.