Notable Examples
- Great County Adit, a system of nearly 40 miles (64 km) of adits used for dewatering the mines in the Gwennap area of Cornwall in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- Milwr tunnel, a ten-mile (16 km)-long drainage adit in North Wales. Started in 1897, it still discharges an average of 23 million US gallons (87,000 m3) of water per day from the disused Halkyn District United Mines.
- The Snowy Hydro scheme in the Australian Snowy Mountains created during its construction. These adits are very large and used to access the central point from which the hydro tunnels were constructed.
- Black Trout Adit in Tarnowskie Góry, Poland. It is a part of former silver mine, the adit was used for removing the water out of the mine. It still carries water from old galleries to the nearest river, a part of it is open for tourists, who go 20m down the steps in one shaft, have a ride in a boat and go up the stairs in another shaft.
- Blue Hawk Mine near Kelowna, BC, Canada
- NORCAT's Underground Mine Centre (Fecunis Adit), used for underground training and mining technology development in Onaping, ON, Canada
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