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1 <br />6 <br />^ <br />_~ <br />t~:,. <br />~~I~ <br />EXPLOSIVES. <br />~' <br />F <br />q <br />i <br />.~ ;~~ <br />.t <br />~q4,t <br />The kind and grade of explosive used is the <br />Giant gelatine, 40,°~ 5 X cads and Aust.rain Inaolid <br />fuse-. The iron or metal tamping bars are not used <br />but the wooden Camping bars are provided for <br />tae employes. Explosives in excess of one <br />day's nse are not stored underground, they are <br />are stored in a magazine built for that purpose <br />alone, this magazine is 350 feet: Not'th of the <br />shaft and engine room. The amount of explosives <br />kept. in e~Corage is 500 ~. The magazine is a <br />small tunnerl. lined with wood. The mine is <br />pro¢-tded with a devide for the thawing of <br />powder. T~iis is a small wooden lnztldfng heated by <br />steam. ~ combustibles are all stored in the <br />engine room. Oils candles etc., are not <br />stomed'tirith the powder. <br /> <br />1. ! <br />