shafting
Also called shaft mining or shaft sinking. Process of digging a deep, vertical or sloping tunnel to find ore, or for ventilation of underground excavations. It is the type of mining seen in movies, where a miner travels straight down into a deep, dark tunnel, until he reaches the bottom to extract the ore. Source: Infomine, Mining Dictionary.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining
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