transitive. Mining and Oil Industry. To ascertain the position and extent of (a deposit, seam, well, etc.). Cf. to prove up 2 at phrasal verbs…
transitive. Mining (originally North American). = sense 1f. Also intransitive: (of a deposit of coal, ore, etc.) to be ascertained to have a…
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