Talk:Pinge

Halde mounds
This sentence in the section headed 'Types' makes no sense to me: "The Pinge is usually surrounded by a ring-shaped mound (German: Halde) as a result of the subsidence of the surface of the terrain" How exactly does subsidence cause a mound? Surely the mound is debris thrown up by miners around the rim of the hole being excavated - as witnessed in many a former British mining landscape. cheers Geopersona (talk) 08:11, 22 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for asking. The statement is sourced and there are other sources making the same point without, however, elaborating on it. So more research is needed. Bermicourt (talk) 12:15, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * In fact the given reference (6) states (in German): Die ringförmigen Halden bildeten sich aus der Ablagerung von taubem Gestein. which Google translates as 'The ring-shaped heaps were formed from the deposit of deaf rock.' - no mention of connection with collapse/subsidence. One imagines that 'deaf' in this context is an incorrect translation - I'd venture it should be rendered as 'waste' - the original German word may be a typo, unless a German scholar knows better. I note that halde translates as 'dump' or stockpile - very much supporting my suggestion. What are the 'other sources' you refer to? Geopersona (talk) 13:43, 23 July 2020 (UTC).


 * 'Deaf' is a literal translation of taub. In a mining context, it refers as you suggest, to the 'waste' material that doesn't contain any ore.
 * I suspect the original German in the statement in question is worded incorrectly; I think it is intending to use an adjectival phrase i.e. Die durch die abgesenkte Oberfläche Pinge ist in der Regel mit einer ringförmigen Halde umgeben. Either way, I've re-ordered the English to make sense. Thanks for spotting this. Bermicourt (talk) 17:58, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Most welcome. thanks Geopersona (talk) 06:37, 24 July 2020 (UTC)