Definition of stockwork
1
: a system of working in ore when it lies not in strata or veins but in solid masses so as to be worked in chambers or stories
2
: a body or tract of rock so charged with veinlets, nests, or impregnations of ore and especially tin ore that it can be profitably mined
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