The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Footwall and hanging wall in mining.
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A ramp is also a type of drift.
The footwall is called a footwall drift and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts.
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Hanging wall and footwall.
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Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
Existing 5 m 5 m height and width of stope geometry has a potential new design to increase production of gold due to variety of thick ore however serious shotcrete failures often occur in hanging wall decline.
The underlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
Ore body is called the footwall.
Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Cibaliung underground gold mine applies cut and fill mining method to optimize ore production and maintain underground stability.
This terminology comes from mining.