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high-grading
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1n. — Mining
See 1958 quote.
See: high-grade ((1)) ((v.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1910
This high grading was a peculiarly fine point in the ethics of stealing; it was looked upon as something akin to beating the customs.
1958
Highgrading [is] the common term for theft of gold bullion, nuggets, fines or precipitates. . . .
1963
To the Porcupine's 10,000 gold miners, high-grading is . . . more an art than a crime.
2n. — Mining
the practice of recovering only high-grade or easily separated ore.
See: haymaker
Quotations
1966
The pattern of mining development in the Yukon to date has been characterised by "high grading" by the first comers using hand-labour; then a slow but steady decline in output as the lower grade minerals came into production.
3n. — Lumbering
the removal of only the best timber from a stand.
See: high-grade ((1)) ((v.))(def. 2)
Quotations
1948
Put to work in poor timber stands left after shameless high-grading of timber during the war, these inexperienced newcomers find it impossible to make a living wage.