Can anybody remember the name of the mine in S Wales that
was bought by its miners with their pooled redundancy cash?
Martin Roe wrote:
> I believe the problem with Victoria level may have been because they
> followed the base of the main lime and so the rise in the level refelcts the
> rise in the beds. However as i am reliing on second hand information albeit
> from a mining engineer i cannot confirm this.
>
> As to the comments about the connection between Bunting and Hard level, i
> have to agree with Mike it was not an error. The agents notebooks indicate
> that the connection on the Old Rake vein was equiped with a pair of "metal
> hoppers". I would suggest that this referes to hoppers for metal not hoppers
> made of metal. So this would indicate that the hoppers served as a
> collection point for ore from the west side of the Old Gang Mine complex
> which could then be trammed out of Hard level to the dressing floor and
> smeltmill. One question that this raises is why use the term "metal hopper",
> does this suggest that it was dressed material trammed in from the Bunting
> dressing floor that was tipped down the hoppers? This dressing floor apears
> to have worked throughout the 19th century and the easiest way to transport
> dressed ore to the companies smelt mill would have been through the mine.
>
> The question of how well the surveyors and engineers knew the local geology
> is an interesting one. Boring rods had been used during the 1680s when they
> were used to drain a shaft and to provide air. It seems hard to imagine that
> they were not also used to prove the position of the bearing beds and
> possibly the position of the veins.
>
> Martin Roe
>
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