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Excavation
Excavation, the term 'excavation', in the ordinary dictionary sense, means 'hole', 'hollow' or 'cavity' made by digging out', Tarkeshwar Sio Tholrur Jiu v. B.D. Dey, AIR 1979 SC 1669 (1671). [West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, (1 of 1954), s. 28]...
Excavate
To hollow out to form cavity or hole in to make hollow by cutting scooping or digging as to excavate a ball to excavate the earth...
Excavator
One who or that which excavates or hollows out a machine as a dredging machine or a tool for excavating...
Excave
To excavate...
Mine
Mine [fr. mwyn or mwy, Wel., fr. maen, a stone], an excavation or cavern in the earth; an excavation made for the purpose of getting coal or other minerals.The inspection and regulation of mines other than coal mines is provided for by the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts, 1872 and 1875. As to the corresponding provisions in the case of coal mines, see COAL MINES.Coal mines only were rateable under 43 Eliz. c. 2, but the Rating Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 54), has made all mines rateable.Neither mines under railways [see (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 20), ss. 77-85], nor under waterworks [see (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 (10 Vict. c. 17), ss. 18-27], pass to the respective companies, unless expressly purchased. See also (English) Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Acts, 1923, 1925, and 1934; the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1926 (c. 17), and the (English) Mining Industry Act (c. 28). By the (English) Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908, as...
Quarry
Quarry. As any place, not being a mine in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coprolites or other minerals, quarries are comprised in the list of non-textile factories and workshops given in Part II. of Sched. VI. of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. See FACTORY. They are also subjected to inspection under the Metalliferous Mines Acts by the Quarries Act, 1894. As to the fencing of Quarries, see Quarry (Fencing) Act, 1887; A.G. v. Roe, (1915) 1 Ch 235. The powers of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Board of Trade by 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 50. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Mines and Quarries.'As a noun the term 'quarry' has been defined as the spot where rock is quarried....an excavation or other place from which stone is taken by cutting, blasting or the like. It is open excavation usually for obtaining building stone, slate or limestone, Labour Inspector v. Chittapur Stone Quarrying Co. (P) Ltd., AIR 1972 SC 1177: (1972) 3 SCC 605: (1973) 1 SCR 83....
Excavation
The act of excavating or of making hollow by cutting scooping or digging out a part of a solid mass...
groundbreaking
The ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project It is sometimes carried out by an official who digs the first spadeful of dirt from the ground to begin the preparatory excavation work...
Incavation
Act of making hollow also a hollow an excavation a depression...
Sandpit
A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken...
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