noun
definition
A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.
Examples of adit in a Sentence
Either may be used for drainage of the mine workings, in which case it becomes an adit.
What was even more puzzling was that the noise was coming from below him in the old abandoned adit.
I also feel that the deep adit is probably flooded to above roof level.
About 83 fathoms further west the Bog shaft is drained by the same adit " .
It is possible to enter this adit wading through the water and penetrate the old workings for a considerable distance.
The top of a rail truck just broke the surface in the lower adit.
A shallow adit driven from near the old reducing works on the South connects with these workings, its mouth is however choked.
Photo 4. There is evidence of a building adjacent to the drainage adit.
To see piskies dancing in a mine adit, this is meant to show that there are rich ore lodes in the mine.
We spent a little time finding the entrance adit, and proceeded to stroll in.
At about 6 places we were greeted by a BW bod in a side adit, checking our progress.
In the adit walls can be seen rounded pebbles, these are the remains of a raised beach.
After passing a flooded winze on the left, the adit reaches Williams Shaft which is solidly filled.