Some questions of mining terminology

Abstract

The terminology in the field of mining still contains many imprecise, polysemantic definitions and foreign words. This often complicates the correct understanding of the essence of the issue being presented and is the cause of mutual misunderstanding even between specialists in the same field. The struggle for the purity of the Russian language, the utmost precision and reflection of the technological meaning of special terms is extremely important. The work on the creation of a unified, correct terminology, which began several decades ago, is not finished and the terms developed by the Committee for Technical Terminology of the USSR Academy of Sciences are being adopted slowly. The establishment of uniformity of terminology in mining is a matter of extreme importance both in technical and legal terms. We will dwell only on some concepts related to opening and development systems, as well as the terminology of mine workings.