Hey Georg, here's the 3 plant jetty in 1976....
3 Plt jetty 2008
Notice how far out the beach has been pushed for the mining..... compare old and new...
Noticed it - you jumped me on this one.
Wanted to make the comment that maybe only a small radio controlled "jetty" can now use that as a landing strip, for no boat can anymore.
NO - I'm lying - that's where Keith the canoe rowing Canidian Pole guy will go on land in November! You guys have to keep a coolbag full of goodies ready for him there, as well as a mini lighthouse! iknow
another one , bulldozers and all...
Hey Georg, these pictures make me feel home sick:-))))
here are some pics I found on 3 plant.
Some more pics of 3 Plant, what good old days were these.
Some more pics.
Last few pics.
3 Plant Wave Rider pics.
Great photo's! :emot112_2:
Man! When I see these, I get tired all over again! We used to work 12 hour shifts during commissioning........many was the time I walked that jetty! Nice Photo's....is John Smith still in Mosselbay?
Hi Carl, thanks. Yes I agree with you. I remember you too those days. I believe John is still in Mossel Bay. It would be nice to get in touch with him again.
You got more pics there Pepe?
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@ Mike, I have got more but need to scrounge around. many of them were old slides of mine and a lot have gone missing. I will be looking for more as post if and when I can.
Great stuff, I have just recently dug out some 8mm film from about '77 that my dad had. Gonna send them off to a conversion guy in CPT and then will post them online..... some are from the town, a turnabout party at the gun club and the beach....
Great stuff thanks Mike, that will be good to see. woo_hoo
I thought the interested parties may like an update on the 3 Plant jetty. This is how far the sea is pushed back now, pic a week or so old. Hard to believe... according to a source the sea has been pushed back as much as 400m in some areas, and this is only since the 1960's when CDM starting pushing the sea back.
look at how far jetty was out to sea
I find this story fascinating..... believe the conveyor belt will soon be dumping three plant mine dump into the ocean to create a new beach...... wonder how many stones are under that dump? was it ever mined before the dump was built? Are they dumping the entire dump through into the sea? perhaps it is worthwhile to rerun the bottom part of the dump through the plant again ? how stable is the newly formed beach? Absolutely amazing how far the new beach is....
From what I understand is that the 3Plant conveyor will be dumping current tailings to sea. The retrieval of the existing dump comes later. B&E Namibia are constructing a conveyor system behind 4Plant dump to take certain of the tailings dump lobes into the sea. This is a dump retrival process, and no current tailings are being dumped to sea... yet.
Some old 3pl Jetty photo`s
Some of the latest 3pl Jetty photo`s
Where does 3 plant get it,s current water intake from? Surely not from the jetty with all that mud...
OMG ,, Thats something pushing the sea back to the end of the jetty ,,, ..
They get the water from a channel this channel is supplied with water from dams south of 3 plant
A line of bowl scrapers slowly emerging from beneath 3 plant jetty,a very eerie sight indeed,a blast from the past,hopefully Alfie can get a couple of snaps before they are removed to their final resting place and ending up in Cape Town ....
I never thought I would see the 3 plant jetty from this angle.
Way to go Alfie, indeed great moment and unbelievable stuff, what a feat to have the sea pushed back so far, the beach now in line with the end of the jetty, must be rich pickings on that stretch.....
Who would have thought that 3 plant would still be running....
Why are these machines here?
Were they lost during construction?
Were those bowl scrapers just abandoned there ??
I think they where put there to protect the jetty fom heavy seas or maybe to hlp during the construction phase
oh nice going Jeremy,no there were no s.a metal those days so cdm thought it would be nice to park them there to help protect the jetty against the rough seas,plenty of machines were driven into the sea this way ,but as you can see the sea is giving back now.....thanx Alfie nice photos ...