The declines geometry both on foot wall and hanging wall are 4 2 m width and 4 8 m height.
Mining footwall and hanging wall.
Ore body is called the footwall.
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Other articles where footwall is discussed.
Delineation ore body is called the hanging wall and rock located below the ore body is called the footwall.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
This terminology comes from mining.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
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Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
Other articles where footwall drift is discussed.
The footwall is called a footwall drift and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts.
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