Conference Proceedings
The AusIMM Proceedings 1911
Conference Proceedings
The AusIMM Proceedings 1911
Head-Gear and Electric Winding Plant at the Main Shaft, Mount Morgan, Queensland
NEARLY all problems in mining engineering involve the transport and distribution of materials from place to place, and in general the most economically managed mines and plants are those in which the transport of materials has been carried out most efficiently. Of all these transport problems, the hoisting of ore out of the mine and the distribution of same to the various treatment works is perhaps one of the most important. It is proposed in the present paper to traverse the conditions,affecting the location, scale of operations, and design of the main shaft and head gear at the Mount Morgan mine; afterwards describing the designs and workings of the shaft house, winding engine, and transport from the shaft house to the treatment works.LOCATIONWhen the copper-gold ore was developed sufficiently to determine approximately the boundaries of the ore-body, it was found that the existing vertical shafts would be wholly inadequate to deal with the increased quantity of ore required to be handled. It was proposed, therefore, to construct a new shaft, and to handle in this...
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- Published: 1910
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