This older method of ground support involves building a continuous masonry lining down the walls of a vertical shaft to prevent the surrounding rock from collapsing. Miners constructed it from the bottom up or in sections, carefully packing the void between the brickwork and the raw rock face. It provided long-term stability in loose or heavily fractured ground before the advent of concrete linings.
Heard on the job
We found sections of original Victorian ginging still intact when we lowered the camera down the abandoned ventilation shaft.
Also heard as
- steaning
Do not mix it up with
- Tubbing: Ginging relies on bricks or stones to support dry ground, whereas tubbing uses cast iron or timber rings specifically to seal out groundwater.