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Definition of adit in English: aditnoun ˈadɪtˈædət A horizontal passage leading into a mine for the purposes of access or drainage. Example sentencesExamples - Armed with large circular screens, we worked the pocket remains in a small stream that ran past the mine adit.
- Early development included sinking shafts and driving adits on the various copper-bearing lodes; by 1870 the mine had produced about 902,000 pounds of copper.
- Underground mining entails sinking shafts to reach the target resource and driving tunnels and adits, either inclined or horizontally.
- For the next ten years it was leased to tributors who worked the old stopes of the conglomerate lode above the adit level.
- By May 2004, more than 10,000 tons of high-grade ore had been mined from this adit.
- Many adits, shafts and tunnels, some extending over 100 m, pursue these veins deep underground.
- On the capital side, the mining of coal additionally often required agreements with surrounding landowners to sink pits and build adits and soughs to drain the water from the mines.
- The bright ‘one way’ sign in the corner of a photograph of an adit on the Langley asbestos mine in Prieska catches the eye.
- It has both a vertical shaft and an adit to an incline, which we and several mine officials entered in a small bus.
- Very little remains of the old silver mines at Glen Osmond, apart from some of the old shafts, adits and the chimney, the oldest mine building in Australia.
- Two shafts and an adit were ultimately driven, but Dunham reported that recorded output of lead concentrates for this period was fairly low.
- The orebodies were accessed through several adits and a few shallow shafts.
- Pits that run horizontally into a hill slope or cliff following material into the slope are known as adits or drift mines.
- The Jomac mine's three adits lie within the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area boundary.
- The mule train would have entered the mine through an adit.
- The strategy for the second year was to drive a new tunnel, branching to the northeast from the main adit near the mine entrance.
- Our first target was in the vicinity of the Pinto mine and the Buckhorn mine, where a cluster of adits was indicated.
- The mine's three adits lie in the Shinarump conglomerate member of the Triassic Chinle Formation.
- During winter 1900-1901 Leon Estivant, the French owner of the mine, sunk a shaft and drove an adit on a fissure vein in a hill just south of the main Clark mine.
- The area has several adits and numerous small pits and cuts.
Synonyms mineshaft, tunnel, passage, pit, downcast, upcast
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin aditus 'approach, entrance', from adit- 'approached', from the verb adire, from ad- 'towards' + ire 'go'. Definition of adit in US English: aditnounˈædətˈadət A horizontal passage leading into a mine for the purposes of access or drainage. Example sentencesExamples - The orebodies were accessed through several adits and a few shallow shafts.
- Our first target was in the vicinity of the Pinto mine and the Buckhorn mine, where a cluster of adits was indicated.
- During winter 1900-1901 Leon Estivant, the French owner of the mine, sunk a shaft and drove an adit on a fissure vein in a hill just south of the main Clark mine.
- Pits that run horizontally into a hill slope or cliff following material into the slope are known as adits or drift mines.
- Very little remains of the old silver mines at Glen Osmond, apart from some of the old shafts, adits and the chimney, the oldest mine building in Australia.
- The area has several adits and numerous small pits and cuts.
- The mine's three adits lie in the Shinarump conglomerate member of the Triassic Chinle Formation.
- The strategy for the second year was to drive a new tunnel, branching to the northeast from the main adit near the mine entrance.
- By May 2004, more than 10,000 tons of high-grade ore had been mined from this adit.
- Underground mining entails sinking shafts to reach the target resource and driving tunnels and adits, either inclined or horizontally.
- Two shafts and an adit were ultimately driven, but Dunham reported that recorded output of lead concentrates for this period was fairly low.
- On the capital side, the mining of coal additionally often required agreements with surrounding landowners to sink pits and build adits and soughs to drain the water from the mines.
- It has both a vertical shaft and an adit to an incline, which we and several mine officials entered in a small bus.
- Armed with large circular screens, we worked the pocket remains in a small stream that ran past the mine adit.
- Early development included sinking shafts and driving adits on the various copper-bearing lodes; by 1870 the mine had produced about 902,000 pounds of copper.
- The mule train would have entered the mine through an adit.
- The Jomac mine's three adits lie within the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area boundary.
- The bright ‘one way’ sign in the corner of a photograph of an adit on the Langley asbestos mine in Prieska catches the eye.
- For the next ten years it was leased to tributors who worked the old stopes of the conglomerate lode above the adit level.
- Many adits, shafts and tunnels, some extending over 100 m, pursue these veins deep underground.
Synonyms mineshaft, tunnel, passage, pit, downcast, upcast
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin aditus ‘approach, entrance’, from adit- ‘approached’, from the verb adire, from ad- ‘towards’ + ire ‘go’. |