open-pittable

adjective

Capable of being mined using the open-pit method.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

adjectiveopen-pittable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCapable of being mined using the open-pit method.

    This is a large, high-grade, open-pittable deposit which is one of the world's best undeveloped nickel projects.

    2025 January 26, Wikipedia contributors, “Canico Resource”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation
    2 more examples

    Preliminary testing, including 180 relatively shallow drill holes, indicates reserves of 20-million tons of open-pittable ore having an average grade of 0.9 oz. of gold per ton…

    1986, MI1985: The Nevada mineral industry 1985, NV Bureau of Mines & Geology, page 4

    The USBM calculated an “open-pittable inferred resource of 200 million tons grading 0.4 percent Cu, 60 ppb Au, 7 ppm Ag, and 5 ppb platinum group metals” Neubert and others, 1992, p. 146).

    1996, Warren Yeend, Gold Placers of the Historical Fortymile River Region, Alaska (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin; 2125), Washington: United States Government Pringing Office, page 72
Cite this entry
APA

open-pittable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/open-pittable

MLA

“open-pittable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/open-pittable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “open-pittable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/open-pittable.

Source: open-pittable on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.