Glossary of Mining Terms
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C
Calcine
Call Factor
Captive Stope
Car
Car Dump
Carbon Adsorption
Carbon-in-Leach
Carbon-in-Pulp
Cash Production Cost
Casting
Channel Sample
Channel Width
Claim
Clarification
Clean-up
Cm-g/t
Collar
Colours
Column Flotation
Comminution
Competent Rock
Complex Ore
Concentrate
Concentrator
Cone Crusher
Conglomerate
Core
Country Rock
Cross-cut
Crusher/Crushing
Cupellation
Cut-and-fill Stoping
Cut-off Grade
Cut Value
Cyanide/Cyanidation
A loose term used to describe the general mass of rock adjacent to an ore body, as distinguished from the vein or ore deposit itself.
About Precious Metals.com 2005
