noun
- an excavation in a mine from which ore has been extracted
Usage: mining
verb
- to excavate ore from a mine in steplike cuts
Usage: mining
Examples
- The miners worked carefully in the narrow stope to extract the copper ore.
- Safety regulations required proper ventilation in each stope.
- The crew began to stope the rich vein they had discovered.
- Engineers designed the stope to maximize ore recovery.
- Water had flooded the abandoned stope on the lower level.
- They will stope this section using the room-and-pillar method.