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footwall

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foot·wall  (ftwôl)
n. Geology
1. The mass of rock underlying a mineral deposit in a mine.
2. The underlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
footwall  (ftwôl)
The block of rock lying under an inclined geologic fault plane. See more at fault. Compare hanging wall.
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Noun1.footwall - the lower wall of an inclined fault
inclined fault - a geological fault in which one side is above the other
wall - anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect; "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"; "negotiations ran into a brick wall"
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The real intrigue with the footwall zones is that they tend to be copper-rich and they tend to be stuffed full of platinum group elements (PGEs), so the value per tonne can be quite spectacular," Anderson says.
First Nickel chasing down mineral potential by Stewart, Nick / Northern Ontario Business
TSX:FNX)(AMEX:FNX) announces that the ongoing drill program, at its 100% owned Levack Property in Sudbury, Ontario, continues to intersect significant widths of high-grade, Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd-Au footwall mineralization and has started to delineate the Levack Footwall Deposit.
FNX Mining Continues to Intersect High Grade Mineralization and ... by Business Wire
The ambitious Toronto miner expects to spend $14 million of its $16 million exploration budget within the Sudbury Igneous Complex, with half of that going into last year's hot new find, their highly prospective Levack footwall discovery on the north range.
1 Nowhere to grow but up for FNX by Ross, Ian / Northern Ontario Business
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