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ORANJEMUND DISCUSSIONS! => The Photograph Board! => Photographs Comment Board => Topic started by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on July 20, 2008, 09:23:46 AM

Title: Pictures from the mine
Post by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on July 20, 2008, 09:23:46 AM
Picture from the mine 1952
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Post by: Michael Alexander on July 20, 2008, 12:13:36 PM
..... Nice pic Georg... anymore?

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Post by: mavis(smith) on July 20, 2008, 05:34:12 PM
Ido not know if i post them once befor.
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Post by: mavis(smith) on July 20, 2008, 05:37:13 PM
once again
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Post by: SandyB on July 20, 2008, 05:53:32 PM
Image # 5 .. shining shining fairy gold ..
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Post by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on July 20, 2008, 07:57:53 PM
The wall at sea mining

3 Plant Sea Mining
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Post by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on July 21, 2008, 07:50:17 AM
More....
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Post by: Gordon Brown on July 21, 2008, 11:09:07 AM
Last photo is No.3 Plant Georg. Great pics. Keep them coming.Regards
Gordon
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Post by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on July 21, 2008, 11:10:30 AM
@ Gordon

He he  yes this one is more then familiar to me lOL
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Post by: Gordon Brown on July 21, 2008, 11:27:27 AM
Georg, First pic. These le Tourneau open bowl scrapers, like the le Tourneau dump trucks, were elecrtically steered with two buttons left and right in front of the driver . A strange sensation. Crashed one of the 5m3 capacity dump trucks into 65G oversize dump once when the electrical steering malfunctioned.Frightening experience.Other earthmoving pic looks like a Cat twin engined 657 being pushed by Hough 500 and a Cat D9 dozers in tandem. Other e/m pic. The first albino Cat iv'e ever seen!!!! Regards
Gordon
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Post by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on July 21, 2008, 11:30:57 AM
Thanks Gordon

Those comments are appreciated
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Post by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on August 11, 2008, 04:33:41 PM
Some more from the archives
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Post by: Richard Opperman on August 12, 2008, 02:05:36 PM
Hi George,

Very nice pictures, brings back some memories of the mine how it looked in the 70s.

Was in Oranjemund about 4 years ago when Rainer Siebers took a De Beers package, he managed to arrange a mine tour for Debby, Cathy and l. The mine does not look the same any more, 4 Plant no more, only recovery, sort house, driers and HMS left, No 3 Plant was the only plant still in operation then.

I have many photographs of the mining and recovery area that I took in 1979 before I left Oranjemund for good.
Will try scanning them sometime and post them on the site.

Keep well
Richard
Title: Re: Pictures from the mine
Post by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on August 12, 2008, 02:21:00 PM
Go ahead Richard. Pics will be more then welcome in the board

Have a nice day
Georg
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Post by: Malcolm Bertoni on August 13, 2008, 02:27:53 AM
When I was at Affenrucken we had a competition to see which was the strongest/toughest dozer. Everyone thought that the D9 which had tracks, would be more powerful than the Hough 500, which was a tyred dozer, when it came to pushing and traction and that sort of thing.

Surprise, surprise.  The Hough outmuscled the D9, even though it only had tyres.  One would have thought the D9 with its tracks would have more grip.  Perhaps the power was better used in the Hough.

Just goes to show . . .
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Post by: Jean on August 21, 2008, 04:09:44 PM
Some pics from an old album that I have.  Don't know when they were taken - my dad will probably be able to enlighten you.
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Post by: Jean on August 21, 2008, 04:10:49 PM
last two...
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