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What are adits?

What are adits? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of adit
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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.

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