Hanging Wall Mining

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.

Hanging wall mining.

Cibaliung underground gold mine applies cut and fill mining method to optimize ore production and maintain underground stability. An arcuate cliff called the headwall. Other articles where hanging wall is discussed. Dip of ore body is 80 and the thickness are varies between 5 m to 15 m.

The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Cut and fill mining is a method of short hole mining used in steeply dipping or irregular ore zones in particular where the hanging wall limits the use of long hole methods. This terminology comes from mining.

And hanging wall decline. The mass of rock overlying a mineral deposit in a mine. Hanging wall and footwall. In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view.

This is a reason to analyze the stope geometry impact on hanging wall decline failure. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. This video is unavailable. The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.

The red color is 100 yield zone which means failure area. In fault block below is called the footwall. Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns. More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along.

Delineation ore body is called the footwall. The ore is mined in horizontal or slightly inclined slices and then filled with waste rock sand or tailings. Mining terminology about hanging wall. Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.

This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus. The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface. The yield element area on gsi 33 figure 4 a is wider.