Space left in a mine after the extraction of a vertical lode
"Gunnis" redirects here. For the biographical dictionary edited by Rupert Gunnis, see Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851.
A gunnies that has breached the surface, becoming a coffin (in this case at a lead mine at Strontian in Scotland)
A gunnies, gunnis, or gunniss is the space left in a mine after the extraction by stoping of a vertical or near vertical ore-bearing lode.[1][2] The term is also used when this space breaks the surface of the ground, but it can then be known as a coffin or goffen.[3] It can also be used to describe the deep trenches that were dug by early miners in following the ore-bearing lode downwards from the surface – in this case they are often called open-works; their existence can provide the earliest evidence of mining in an area.[4] William Pryce, writing in 1778, also used the term as a measure of width, a single gunnies being equal to three feet.[5]
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^Boycott, A. E.; Haldane, J. S. (January 1903), "An Outbreak of Ankylostomiasis in England. No. 1", The Journal of Hygiene, 3 (1): 97, doi:10.1017/S0022172400032757, JSTOR 3858890, PMC 2236066, PMID 20474163 – via JSTOR (subscription required)
^"The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site nomination, Sections 4 – 8" (PDF). Cornwall County Council. 2004. pp. 221–2. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
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