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Exploration Meets the City. The Role of Infrastructure Presented by Richard Levack CEO Operations Banlaw Africa Group.
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Exploration Meets the City The Role of Infrastructure Presented by Richard Levack CEO Operations Banlaw Africa Group
Exploration Meets the City In Mining Terms, Infrastructure relates to all the components required to build and operate a Mine. Including Facilitation of : Clearing the Mining and Processing areas Providing Earth, Civil and Construction Works to Build a Mine Building Access Roads, Airports, Rail Corridors and Housing
Exploration Meets the City Gold miners excavate a river bed after the water has been diverted into a sluice alongside the river
Exploration Meets the City Mundaring Weir under Construction 1901 and the 530 km pipeline as it is today providing potable water to the Eastern Goldfields.
Exploration Meets the City Klondikers carrying supplies ascending the Chilkoot Pass 1898. 100,000 left for the Klondike, 40,000 reached Dawson City, 4000 found Gold.
Exploration Meets the City SkagwayStampeders on a Train which was introduced by investors just before the Goldrush ended.
Exploration Meets the City Ore Being trammed from Colton pits to a stockpile nearby Image Courtesy West Somerset Mineral Railway & Mike Jones Collection
Exploration Meets the City First shipment of Somerset Mineral Syndicate iron ore being loaded into the Lizzie at Watchet, Circa 1899. Image Courtesy West Somerset Mineral Railway & Mike Jones Collection
Exploration Meets the City A Wagon arrives at the top of the Comberow Incline Image Courtesy West Somerset Mineral Railway & Mike Jones Collection
Exploration Meets the City A horse dragging one of the winding cables down the incline. Image Courtesy West Somerset Mineral Railway & Mike Jones Collection Cou
Exploration Meets the City Two, FMG, 4,400HP Locos and 240 Ore Cars, each loaded with 112 t, 2.4 kms train length, all up weight 32,000 tonnes, hauling 40 mil tonnes per annum, 250kms from Cloudbreak Mine to Port Hedland.
Exploration Meets the City Valemax Ore Carrier capable of carrying 400,000 tonnes of Iron Ore Image Courtesy VALE SA
Exploration Meets the City Ship loader at Cape Lambert, loading 11,600 tonnes per hour
Exploration Meets the City Driving a mine access road in DRC
Exploration Meets the City 100 tonne Crane being hauled up a steep mine access road in DRC
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