Show FOLLOW your ore or e this is the advice of an experienced mining man mail who makes the assertion that more mining failures have resulted from running crosscut cross cut tunnels than from all other causes combined I 1 it is ofte often n the case that the prospector starts a crosscut cross cut out tunnel the first jump out of the box when common sense would suggest that he follow his vein or ore body where a mine has been extensively developed and the dip and strike of the vein fully established crosscut cross cut tunnels are often necessary but they are unsafe propositions in the development of a prospect to follow the ledge is good advice and more mines are made ten times over by sinking indino or driving anthe vein than are recorded c orde d in cutting g the formation in the attempt to find ore the existence of which at a certain point is a mere supposition |