| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| In situ vat | Mining | A five- or six-sided enclosure constructed in the earth by backfilling cuts around an orebody or orebody zone with material that is impervious to solutions so that aqueous leaching can be conducted for the extraction of mineral values from the isolated ore. (references) | |
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