noun
- shallow circular tanks or basins used for washing ore to separate valuable minerals from waste material
Usage: mining; technical
Examples
- The miners used buddles to separate the tin ore from the sand and gravel.
- Water flowed continuously through the buddles to wash away the lighter materials.
- The old mining site still had several stone buddles near the stream.
- Workers stirred the ore mixture in the buddles with long wooden paddles.
- The buddles were arranged in a series to process large quantities of ore.
- Heavy minerals settled at the bottom of the buddles while waste floated away.