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A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for prying. Its head is typically metal, attached perpendicularly to a longer handle, traditionally made of wood, occasionally metal, and increasingly fiberglass. A standard pickaxe, similar to a "pick mattock", has a pointed end on one side of its head and a broad flat "axe ...
Pickaxe. A mattock ( / ˈmætək /) is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze ( cutter mattock ), or a pick and an adze ( pick mattock ). A cutter mattock is similar to a Pulaski used in fighting fires.
The hammer and pick, rarely referred to as hammer and chisel, is a symbol of mining, often used in heraldry. It can indicate mining, mines (especially on maps or in cartography ), or miners, and is also borne as a charge in the coats of arms of mining towns . The symbol represents the traditional tools of the miner, a hammer and a chisel on a ...
Traditional mining. Traditional mining, also known as old-school mining, is a mining method involving the use of simple manual tools, such as shovels, pickaxes, hammers, chisels and pans. [ 1] It is done in both surface and underground environments. Until the early 1900s, traditional mining was widely used throughout the world.
Gada – A mace used by the Monkey God Hanuman. Gandiva – An indestructible bow with 100 strings created by Brahma and later used by Arjuna. Halayudha – A plough used as a weapon by Balarama. Kaladanda – the staff of Death is a special and lethal club used by the God Yama or God of Naraka or Hell in Hindu mythology.
The hammer and sickle symbol and red star. The hammer and sickle ( Unicode: U+262D ☭ HAMMER AND SICKLE) is a communist symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers. It was first adopted during the Russian Revolution at the end of World War I, the hammer representing workers and the sickle representing ...
Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (followed by exploration) of a territory. It is the search for minerals, fossils, precious metals, or mineral specimens. It is also known as fossicking . Traditionally prospecting relied on direct observation of mineralization in rock outcrops or in sediments.
The dolabra[ 1] is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool ( mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics. In the 1st century CE, at the Siege of Augustodunum ...