The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Mining footwall and hanging wall.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
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A ramp is also a type of drift.
The declines geometry both on foot wall and hanging wall are 4 2 m width and 4 8 m height.
Delineation ore body is called the hanging wall and rock located below the ore body is called the footwall.
Three underground excavations are designed including footwall decline hanging wall decline and stope excavation.
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.
The footwall is called a footwall drift and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts.
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