Glossary · term
Underground mining
Mining & Metallurgy
- Aliases
- underground, block cave, longwall
- Domain
- Mining & Metallurgy
Definition
Following the ore down shafts and tunnels when it is too deep or too narrow for a pit. Room-and-pillar, longwall, block caving; the deepest reach 4 km.
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