User blog comment:Feldpausch All4/Mining in Middle Earth/@comment-25565811-20141117162711

Nice blog. "Ladders" are written like this, if you want to correct it. I personally use the strip mining method: One tunnel 3 high and several blocks in lenghth. From this tunnel you branch off at the tunnel height a veeeeery long 1x2 tunnel. Then you leave a 1 block gap and branch off the main tunnel at 2 blocks higher than the main tunnel. Of course, you need a steps to get up. Then leave 1 gap, branch off at main level, 1 gap, 2 higher, 1 gap, main level and so on. This way you'll see all the blocks but not one double.

Here you see my mine on level 5/7. Some of the floor blocks are bedrock. To cover all the blocks of the higher layers you can repeat the pattern just at level 9/11. The only annoying thing is running into lava.