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Adit. ANSWER: Its called a shaft, whether it is a horizontal or vertical opening.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_entrance_or_openi...
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Adit - A nearly horizontal passage from the surface by which a mine is entered and dewatered. A blind horizontal opening into a mountain, with only one entrance. ... sometimes called "crosscut tunnel", or "breakthrough". In vein mining, an entry perpendicular to the vein.
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www.coaleducation.org/glossary.htm
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mining n. The process or business of extracting ore or minerals from the ground. The process of digging under an enemy emplacement or fortification ... A vertical internal connection between two levels of a mine is called a winze if it was made by driving downward and a raise if it was made by driving upward.
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www.answers.com/topic/mining
www.answers.com/topic/mining
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Used for attaching one box to another until you had 34 boxes coupled together. That was called a "round" of coal. ... One of the main mines in the Castlecomer area It lasted longer than any other mine 1928-1969 ... The entrance to a mine.
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www.sip.ie/sip019B/glossary.htm
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Just to be peverse I'm posing in an old Lead Mine Entrance, in the title of a web site called 'Cave and Dive'. Well... mines are underground too. Actually they are often linked. More than one cave was entered by the miners in their quest for the precious ore, including the well known 'Lost Caverns of Grassington Moor'.
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homepage.mac.com/brianjudd/cavedive/keld/bk1/bigbjm.htm...
homepage.mac.com/brianjudd/cavedive/keld/bk1/bigbjm.html
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The building itself is the old entrance of a Mine and is called Liepch colleries and is located a bit outside of Crowsnest Pass on highway three. The first challenge was getting the camera and building at the right angle so it looked something like the picture and I could actually create what it looked like.
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www.cs.uleth.ca/~vpak/spring2005/coor3710/
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What's the Big Idea?; Big Idea: Make It Mine with a Separate Entrance ... Each of them had its own sub-directory and its own default page (called index.html) with specialized content for people in their different markets. In this case, we identified seven different markets, so we had seven different sub-sites.
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www.bockinfo.com/bigideas/mineentrance.htm
www.bockinfo.com/bigideas/mineentrance.htm
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If the staff isn't too busy, and if you're 13 or older, you'll take a ride underground into the New Savage Mine, where miners blast away 588 feet below the earth's surface. The mine entrance (called a decline) is hot, humid, and completely dark except for the light from miners' headlamps;
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As the men entered the mine entrance, called by some the "Bank," it was 6:30 a.m. As they walked farther and farther into the deep tunnels that lead into the very heart of the mountain, small crews of men separated off to go to their work areas for the day's labor.
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www.coalcreekaml.com/CrossMtnMinersList.htm
www.coalcreekaml.com/CrossMtnMinersList.htm
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