Footwall Hanging Wall Mining

This terminology comes from mining.
Footwall hanging wall mining. Hoist incline inclined shaft level magnetite outcrop ore ore pass. Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore. The underlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane. Footwall definition the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore.
Footwall synonyms footwall pronunciation footwall translation english dictionary definition of footwall. Other articles where footwall is discussed. Footwall grizzly hanging wall headframe hematite. The distance between stope to footwall decline d1 set fixed as 20 m.
Also miners will mine ore not hanging walls or footwalls. Large number of pages viewed. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. Orebody overburden pillar pinch pitch raise shaft skip.
In some kinds of mineral deposits there is ore directly in the fault so. Hanging wall and footwall. The footwall is called a footwall drift and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts. Meanwhile standard stope geometry is 5 m width and 5 m height.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Generally speaking the hanging wall and footwall of a fault are in contact with each other. The declines geometry both on foot wall and hanging wall are 4 2 m width and 4 8 m height. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
Ore body is called the footwall. Other articles where footwall drift is discussed.