old coal mine adit

Your correct usage of terminology made me smile. Most have no sense of the technical terms adit, raise, winze, drift, level, etc. However, shaft they recognize, usually both as a noun and as a verb...

Ken

Nice picture and interesting construction, thanks for showing.
/Bertil

thanks, guys, very much.
Ken, we live in the middle of alabama coal country, so one just about has to pick up a little of the lexicon. i think this mine was used near the end of its life mostly for small-lot sales, from the wagon load to a bucketful. it is next to a small, abandoned cinder-block store ...