“Once more Aclare was alive with the sounds from tunneling, stoping, dressing, sorting, bagging, and the loading of ore from the mine.”

“The intrusions are passively emplaced into the surrounding host by stoping and assimilation.”

“The three main underground mining methods are stoping, room-and-pillar mining, and longwall mining.”

“The remnant ore inside the old stopes, pillars and tailings used as backfilling are being leached with mild acid solution.”

“Dunham noted that fluorite was more common in stopes developed on veins lower down in the Melmerby Scar Limestone than in the upper flats.”

“We explored the areas that were not being mined, including miles of old abandoned drifts and stopes.”