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Footwall hanging wall mining.
Footwall synonyms footwall pronunciation footwall translation english dictionary definition of footwall.
The distance between stope to footwall decline d1 set fixed as 20 m.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
The mass of rock underlying a mineral deposit in a mine.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
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Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.
A ramp is also a type of drift.
Generally speaking the hanging wall and footwall of a fault are in contact with each other.
Other articles where footwall is discussed.
Ore body is called the footwall.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
Hanging wall and footwall.
This terminology comes from mining.
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.
Meanwhile standard stope geometry is 5 m width and 5 m height.
In some kinds of mineral deposits there is ore directly in the fault so.
Also miners will mine ore not hanging walls or footwalls.
Footwall grizzly hanging wall headframe hematite.
The underlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
Hoist incline inclined shaft level magnetite outcrop ore ore pass.