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Box Cut

A box cut is a petite open cut made to give a safe and secure portal as access to a turn down to an underground mine. Normally the box cut is sunk until adequately unweathered rock is found to allow the development of the turn down. The portal is normally made safe with rock bolts, wire mesh, and shotcrete, which averts accidental rock falls from closing access to the fall.