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.
Delineation ore body is called the hanging wall and rock located below the ore body is called the footwall.
Hoist incline inclined shaft level magnetite outcrop ore ore pass.
Orebody overburden pillar pinch pitch raise shaft skip.
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Footwall grizzly hanging wall headframe hematite.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
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When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
A ramp is also a type of drift.
Ore body is called the footwall.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
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This terminology comes from mining.