Mining Footwall And Hanging Wall

This terminology comes from mining.

Mining footwall and hanging wall.

Footwall grizzly hanging wall headframe hematite. Ore body is called the footwall. The declines geometry both on foot wall and hanging wall are 4 2 m width and 4 8 m height. Slope stope strike stull tailings timber vein winze.

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. Other articles where footwall is discussed. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.

Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore. Other articles where footwall drift is discussed. Orebody overburden pillar pinch pitch raise shaft skip. Three underground excavations are designed including footwall decline hanging wall decline and stope excavation.

The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.