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Rockpicker

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-004898

A worker, machine, or machine part that takes waste rock out of ore during ore dressing, for example by picking stones from a belt or sorting table as the ore passes. In agriculture the same word names a tractor-drawn machine that lifts stones out of fields and carries them in a hopper.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-004898
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMining and extraction
See alsoRockpicking
TranslationsGerman: Steinpicker; Spanish: despedregadora; French: trieur de roches
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-004898",
  "term": "Rockpicker",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A worker, machine, or machine part that takes waste rock out of ore during ore dressing, for example by picking stones from a belt or sorting table as the ore passes. In agriculture the same word names a tractor-drawn machine that lifts stones out of fields and carries them in a hopper.",
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "see_also": [
    "rockpicking"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "Steinpicker",
    "es": "despedregadora",
    "fr": "trieur de roches"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/rockpicker/"
}

Record 5,302 of 7,291 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.