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ad·it

(ăd′ĭt)

An almost horizontal entrance to a mine.

[Latin aditus, access, from past participle of adīre, to approach : ad-, ad- + īre, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots.]

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adit

(ˈædɪt)

(Mining & Quarrying) an almost horizontal shaft into a mine, for access or drainage

[C17: from Latin aditus an approach, from adīre, from ad- towards + īre to go]

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ad•it

(ˈæd ɪt)

n.

a nearly horizontal passage leading into a mine.

[1595–1605; < Latin aditus an approach]

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adit - a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine

mine - excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted

passage - a way through or along which someone or something may pass

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What all these passages are, of course I cannot say, but we thought that they must be the ancient workings of a mine, of which the various shafts and adits travelled hither and thither as the ore led them.

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Using the local iron ore deposits, Jacek Fredro set up first adit in 1796, and then, in 1804, an iron foundry which manufactured farming tools, pots and furnaces.

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The funds raised will be deployed to commence construction of an underground adit which should allow Indochine to more cost effectively increase its high grade resource which currently stands at 466,000 ounces gold at 10 g/t Au, (within a larger 2.1 Moz gold JORC resource and 18 Moz silver).