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>>55408109
In traditional mining, you have a team of guys with jacklegs doing your development and actual mining work. This is tedious and dangerous work, that while still in use is slowly being phased out for total mechanized work with remote controlled gear. Often in more modern mines, you will not be in the LHD / Scoop tram, your operating it at a distance from the draw of the stope. This is for safety, as men cant be working below unsupported ground. During development work, or after a blast, its important to stabilize the work site before anymore activities happen. Bolting and mesh go up then your guys go in to do final clean up by hand with scaling bars.

You dont often see a shaft in mines anymore, with most places going totally mechanized everything comes and goes up and down a long set of ramps to a portal. Ore in such a mine is stored in pockets or stalls off a main drive where it can be loaded by a different team or shift later. The materials driven up to surface in haul trucks to a sorted out site, often based on if its PAG or NAG rock. (Pag means possibly acid generating and nag doesnt).
Each mines different but the same thing is going on. Ore is getting drilled and blasted, its getting hauled or stored and brought to surface. Development work is planned based on how the body is shaped and on how little dilution can be done during prep.