pay zone

Hardrock Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a profitable stratum or vein of mineral-bearing ore.

See: paystreak(def. 1)

Quotations

1966

. . . Pyramid Mines reported it had cut 62 feet of pay zone . . . on its prospect at Pine Point in the Northwest Territories.