Prospecting tool

Usage examples of pickaxe.

Hence, if we are mining it further away, we will be collecting the bauxite with pickaxe and shovel, carrying it out of the mine by wheelbarrow, hoist, or mine car, and shipping it to the processing plant by pack mule, wagon, barge or ship.

This would have taken too long with the pickaxe alone, and it is known that Harding was an ingenious man.

If Ronne had plenty of sewing, Nodtvedt had no less forging -- sledge-fittings, knives, pickaxes, bars and bolts, patent hooks by the hundred for dogs, chains, and so on to infinity.

Monsieur Souche, who had left a pickaxe and several heaps of rubbish and other signs of an intention to come back.

In the end I swallowed two Temazepam and spent the night in a daze, seeing a squadron of policemen and joiners break down the walls with pickaxes before marching rhythmically round and round my bedroom.

As he hung there, Masin had held up the handle of a pickaxe as high as he could reach against the smooth wall, as a crossbar on which Malipieri had succeeded in getting a slight foothold, enough for a man who was not heavy and was extraordinarily active.

Klyucharyov returns to the overground armed with the things he needs: a pickaxe, a crowbar, a shovel, some candles.

This feeling was so strong that at the moment when Edmond was about to begin his labor, he stopped, laid down his pickaxe, seized his gun, mounted to the summit of the highest rock, and from thence gazed round in every direction.

Where other dwarves charged with pickaxes, battle-axes, warhammers, and swords held high, Gutbusters just charged.

About ten men mounted the sides of the Nautilus, armed with pickaxes to break the ice around the vessel, which was soon free.

Frank, seeing what had happened, screamed like a beserker and ran at the beast with the pickaxe raised above his head.

Fosbery met his death like a gallant gentleman, but not more heroically than Barry, the humble private, who, surrounded by Boers, thought neither of himself nor of them, but smashed at the maxim gun with a pickaxe until he fell riddled with bullets.

He was one of those engineers who began by handling the hammer and pickaxe, like generals who first act as common soldiers.

Sharpe could hear the sound of pickaxes making yet more loopholes in the thick walls of the barns and house.

Then Dantes rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated.