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What is an adit?

What is an adit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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.
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Armed with large circular screens, we worked the pocket remains in a small stream that ran past the mine adit.
Today the adit can still be seen at the confluence of the Uncompahgre River and Canyon Creek, at the base of Oak Street on the southwest side of Ouray.
For the next ten years it was leased to tributors who worked the old stopes of the conglomerate lode above the adit level.
The authorization to excavate an exploratory adit in the accident area was granted in June 2005, allowing the work to begin immediately.
Two shafts and an adit were ultimately driven, but Dunham reported that recorded output of lead concentrates for this period was fairly low.
It has both a vertical shaft and an adit to an incline, which we and several mine officials entered in a small bus.

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