MINEBK00364

• County: Lake
• Volume: 13
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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" Explosives
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Oelatino powder 40per cent is used in blasting, with Baer fuse
1POOdea tamping bare ,are provided-Ito, powd+~~ man: etap].oyed,'powd~
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not tept.in etorage,aupply.uaed.purchased when neoded Mine is
provided kith devise Sor warming powder-sheet iron reaeptaole .
heated with warm orator.
Mining.
There are two shafts on the property., the Little Prince shaft
which le 400 Peet in dopth,and le now idle, and the Hig Siz
shaft 340 feet in depth,whore the work ie at prcrsent carried
on, the on1Y level on vfiioh work is being done in this shaft is
I15,feet from the oollar,thia level is 4l0 Poet in length at
present,anR has no oonneotions,but will oonnoot with the Penn
mining oatapaniea phaft in a short t]sse.
Hoisting:-ltothod employed machinery drivon by atean,mon era
raiaod a><zd iowerod by machinery-Height of load hoisted;-I000.
1bs.0abie of 3~4 inch steol,in use five months-faatoned with
clamps and thirablo to aefety hook-distance hoisted IIO Pest.
signal Dodo-ltinirrg Hurearrpoetod in engino room,and collar of
of shaft.
3tino methods.
Method of ore extraotion,etoping and drifting, Hand drilling.
Timbering:-oribbe and eotte-euttioient-underground trerasirrg -bY
men with buotet and tract on rfib.to tho Yard rail-No xnter-
Vehtilation:-Antural draft-euffioiont-Shaft is divoded lnto two
oomyartmonte,arid ie provided with laddor way-LightitrZ under-
ground by candle,
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Total Ito.ot toot in ehaLte:-7~•°Coet poi' foot-~IC.00.
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production.
Average tonnage per month:-I250.Oroee tonnage Yom' Your:.-15.000.
,lien onployed-
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2 Trasners.
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Zotal >ro.ot mere ersylored for tho year:-n.