Hanging Wall Mining Definition

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Hanging wall mining definition.

The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it. The mass of rock overlying a mineral deposit in a mine. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns.

The ore is mined in horizontal or slightly inclined slices and then filled with waste rock sand or tailings. Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore. In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him.

An arcuate cliff called the headwall. More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along. The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane. This terminology comes from mining.

Other articles where hanging wall is discussed. This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus.