This terminology comes from mining.
Mining footwall and hanging wall.
Footwall grizzly hanging wall headframe hematite.
Three underground excavations are designed including footwall decline hanging wall decline and stope excavation.
When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.
The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.
Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.
Ore body is called the footwall.
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.
Hoist incline inclined shaft level magnetite outcrop ore ore pass.
The footwall is called a footwall drift and drifts driven from the footwall across the ore body are called crosscuts.
Slope stope strike stull tailings timber vein winze.
The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.
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