Thursday, October 28, 2010

Mining - 3000m underground in a gold mine exploration

Extraction of gold. What an incredible experience have actually reduced mine gold and seen with my own eyes how comes, the precious metal. Here is my account of the incredible journey toward the end of the deepest mine Bay unique Canon.

Permission was for me to two photographers 3000m u-Bahn machinery organized, take some photos of diamond core drilling and see first-hand get, such as mining stattfindet.Wir had to go through a process of induction where safety and regulatory issues have been abordées.puis a strong character in the process followed by special permissions for the cameras and fire for lightning special permission because you one of the explosion risk.

Once inside, we introduced to the team take the underground to document how they work and get some sequences of your exercises would drill. We had a room visitors with rows of racks and mining machines, after change our mining safety equipment in white with white gum reviews boots, we have delivered and go to the mine shaft.

The cage was relatively large in terms of the lifts in fact, it was the biggest I've ever seen.The best way to describe hike in the cage look would be windy and dusty. I started, a revelation of the extreme way to get this work really am not sure that numbers but it should was between 60 and 70 of minors in line who think that pay were the first cage.Ma take ages to get 3 km all this underground of guys.To my great surprise and after some insistence and a little more pushed everyone! I could not move at all.

The decline was ages, intense, at a speed of 19 meters per second, it seemed to take the end of the rope. It was perhaps because of the design, noise or the fact that I roll between a group of miners from any chance to get out alive, when something caught.. .the went wrong ' atmosphere in the cage was my surprise, beat and simple, with minor talk and joke about Rugby and other pastimes in South Africa.

If we, arrived to arrest and doors open men pouring of the lift, reminded animal after his Atem.Wir poured me of a great breathing in a grey concrete tunnel which was well lit and a number of hubs leads off the coast of grey plus.Ici tunnel, the temperature was very pleasant with many ventilation, because now, I was comfortable.

After approx. 500 m walk we came where one it at a crossroads yellow train reach voraus.A not enormous, as are mines but in reality, they are solid and cover the huge Boden.Die twenty minutes have been good trip must train with, and when we stopped a further walk 500 meters to a ski lift as those for the carriage of passengers on the slopes of the ski.Ce was travel long approximately 5 minutes and then we came to the next exercise.

A further decline of 1000 meters later, we were a tributary of the lift to nouveau.Cette times climate was different!PAS pleasant, well ventilated with fresh air, but changed the last mile has many of the température À of this depth it is incredibly hot and we had to go humide.Pire of everything, to do exercises for old age, that machines, drilling.

Once we had 30 minutes to get the photos we needed and start the long journey towards the surface.Les which machines are impressionnantes.Nous has our photos and made on the surface very excited with this extreme and experienced course Metro was pleased

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