Meaning of open-pittable | Babel Free

Definitions

Capable of being mined using the open-pit method. This refers to mineral deposits that are located relatively close to the surface of the Earth and can be economically extracted by removing the overlying rock and soil.

not-comparable

Examples

“Preliminary testing, including 180 relatively shallow drill holes, indicates reserves of 20-million tons of open-pittable ore having an average grade of 0.9 oz. of gold per ton…”

“The USBM calculated an “open-pittable inferred resource of 200 million tons grading 0.4 percent Cu, 60 ppb Au, 7 ppm Ag, and 5 ppb platinum group metals” Neubert and others, 1992, p. 146).”

“This is a large, high-grade, open-pittable deposit which is one of the world's best undeveloped nickel projects.”

CEFR level