The footwall is called a footwall drift and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts.
Mining footwall and hanging wall.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
Ore body is called the footwall.
Orebody overburden pillar pinch pitch raise shaft skip.
Footwall grizzly hanging wall headframe hematite.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
This terminology comes from mining.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
The declines geometry both on foot wall and hanging wall are 4 2 m width and 4 8 m height.
Slope stope strike stull tailings timber vein winze.
A ramp is also a type of drift.
Three underground excavations are designed including footwall decline hanging wall decline and stope excavation.
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