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ROM pad

English translation: run-of-mine (ROM) pad

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English term or phrase:ROM pad
Selected answer:run-of-mine (ROM) pad
Entered by: Mahammad Kalfat (X)

22:36 Feb 16, 2007
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Mining & Minerals / Gems
English term or phrase: ROM pad
In an environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA). It's a component of a minin project, like open pts; wste dumps; plants, processing facilities and tailings storage facility. What is it? And is ROM an acronym? Of which phrase? Any definitions online or from printed dictionaries?
Mahammad Kalfat (X)
Local time: 12:58
Run Of Mine (ROM) pad
Explanation:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Run Of Mine (ROM) pad&ie=utf-...
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Ioanna Karamanou
United States
Local time: 06:58
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5 +2Run Of Mine (ROM) pad
Ioanna Karamanou


  

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rom pad
Run Of Mine (ROM) pad


Explanation:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Run Of Mine (ROM) pad&ie=utf-...

Ioanna Karamanou
United States
Local time: 06:58
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GreekGreek
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: For coincidence, the same result was reached by my search moments before your answer, almost through the same query based on mere guesswork, rather shoot in the dark, when I put "ore mine" between inverted commas beside "ROM pad", thinking it might be the phrase represented by OM!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
14 hrs
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agree  Alfa Trans (X)
1 day 11 hrs
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