tinticng Wrote:
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> Of course things can get really interesting
> underground when adits become drifts or crosscuts,
> and shafts become winzes and raises.
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> Sam Bass
> 23 years looking at the inside of mountains
Hey, Sam. Long time, no see.
Interesting .... up in the Coeur d'Alenes of North Idaho there was some different terms, too. The main ones were "Shafts" beginning underground. Grass to 3,700 was a shaft, alright, but then we rode a train to "10 Shaft" to go down as far as 6,000. I was hoistman when we were sinking "12 Shaft" from 3700 to 6000, too. Of course, they should have been "winzes."
In Colorado at one mine my boss was from Lead, SD and the Homestake Gold mine., Bit confusing because timbering had some different terms ..... "collar braces" instead of "Girts," Lagging was called something else that I can't remember ..... and so on.
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