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