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Surface mining was complemented by driving shallow adits into the hills.
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Unique microorganisms perform myriad chemical and mineralogical transformations and live in habitat types including near-surface caves, aquifers, very deep-sealed voids, multi-km deep mine adits, and minute fractures within igneous masses.
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Ancillary buildings and other structures, including shafts and adits, are separately valued and do not change annually.
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It is the issue of mine shafts and adits.
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The airways were blocked, or theadithad been stopped.
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Different levels are connected by numerous shafts and adits.
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We do not fear that there will be damage to properties as a result of the existence of mine shafts or adits.
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To what extent do the existing regulations on subsidence embrace the aspect of blight relating to mine shafts and adits?
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Some of that poisoning still flows into the rivers from the flooding of the mine adits.
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Within 10 years, acidic discharges began to appear at the surface, issuing from old adits, boreholes and fissures that had been forgotten.
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Early coal mines were small, and used either shallow mine shafts or adits to access the coal measures.
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There are some very large businesses entirely worked from adits, surface working.
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The workings would fill with water and eventually find a way to the surface via adits.
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He spoke of water table rebounds, of iron pyrites, of adits—a horizontal or near-horizontal tunnel from the surface into a mine for entry, drainage or exploration.
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When it recovered its natural level, it moved laterally under pressure of gravity passing through old mineworkings and discharged through an old mineaditinto the river.
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A chalkaditsome 46 metres below the surface was found contaminated from, so it is believed by experts, whale oil distillation that took place more than a century before.
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The majority of these mining operations were alluvial workings or small hard-rock mines, consisting often of single adits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mountains are riddled with adits and holes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Initially the gypsum was extracted on the surface, but subsequently using underground mines accessed via adits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Workings above this level (known as aboveadit) will remain unflooded as long as theaditdoes not become blocked.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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