Footwall grizzly hanging wall headframe hematite.
Mining footwall and hanging wall.
The footwall is called a footwall drift and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts.
This terminology comes from mining.
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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Three underground excavations are designed including footwall decline hanging wall decline and stope excavation.
Ore body is called the footwall.
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Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
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The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
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