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...
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 ...