RESURRECTING AN OLD HARD ROCK MINE-A SERIES OF SMALL VICTORIES

摘要

I was exhausted and sore after removing concrete forms, stacking lumber, hauling beams down the ladder-track and stacking them in out-of-the-way places on the first and second levels for use in future shoring efforts. My independent miner team had been working on other tasks, such as designing and fabricating a new ore cart skip that could be automatically unloaded when hauled to the surface. I reported previously on the progress we've been making in this old hard rock mine ( see "Resurrecting an Old Hard Rock Mine" in December 2018 ICMJ and "The Underground Mining Adventure Continues" in the January 2019 /CM/.) Hard rock is hard work, as is placer mining, except with a twist-it takes a lot of work that isn't actually gathering up paydirt and processing it. You might not realize it, but you need a lot of skills not directly related to mining at first glance, but once you dig in (cheap pun!), you'll see the benefits of so many skill sets.