The area has several adits and numerous small pits and cuts. |
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. |
Most adits are designed to slope slightly upwards from the entrance so that water will flow freely out of the mine. |
Eventually stoping cut farther into the veins so that either shafts had to be sunk or adits driven into the hillside to make connections with the underground workings. |
Many adits, shafts and tunnels, some extending over 100 m, pursue these veins deep underground. |