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notfair I Started my Electrical Career at 2 Plt bye1 bye1
Our team was
Allan Delany
Wally Golder
Bret Leese
Tom Lowrie
Alfred Boehme
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I wonder how many klippies are still in that big mine dump behind the plant?
I also wonder if the ground directly beneath two plant infrastructure was ever mined? Gordon perhaps you would know?
Quote from: Michael Alexander on August 14, 2012, 04:07:59 PM
I wonder how many klippies are still in that big mine dump behind the plant?
I also wonder if the ground directly beneath two plant infrastructure was ever mined? Gordon perhaps you would know?
They tried to reclaim the dump, it was not profitable so they stopped.
Some photo's of the tunnel under the ground
Yes!But they found some stones, which shows that they are there.... so instead of using a big plant to find them, why not outsource the dump to a small scale miner working on a commission basis?
That's like talking to a wall........ :wow1:
That underwater tunnel has some interesting stories ,, one I heard , the HV pump motors kept on blowing fuses so someone jimmied the fuses ,, name notsae nodrog ... flooding and all kinds of happenings ... The 3 plant jetty also had its share of happenings as well ,, the seepage dams worked well but eventually seepage stops hence the adventures into tunnels and jetties ,,
If I remember well, my dad was electrical foreman at No. 2 Plant.
You are correct Patricia, such a good memory................
Quote from: SandyB on August 14, 2012, 07:39:17 PM
That underwater tunnel has some interesting stories ,, one I heard , the HV pump motors kept on blowing fuses so someone jimmied the fuses ,, name notsae nodrog ... flooding and all kinds of happenings ... The 3 plant jetty also had its share of happenings as well ,, the seepage dams worked well but eventually seepage stops hence the adventures into tunnels and jetties ,,
Sandy
During my time there we did away with the HT motors Installed three 6600V to 550V Minisubs, motors in the tunnel where changed to 550V but we still used the HT contactors to operate the new motors via the three transformers (Minisubs) they also did away with the small emergency generator that could only run one 25hp submersible and replaced it with a large CAT generator, we could run all the lighting and three 50hp submersibles this was more reliable controlling the seapage water and pipe / pump glands that yused to leak.
They also installed two hyd spade valves close to the riser pipes manifolds these valves where controlled by emergency stop switches and a high level "elephant" ball in the seapage sump.
Aflred .. have you worked out the name of the fuse Jimmier ??
No maybe that was just before my time there Nov 1986 -Jan 1988
Gordon Easton ,,
Site was mined out before No2 Plant was built Mike
Kind regards
Gordon
Ta Gordon, safe to assume that the ground beneath the huge dump was also mined then?
doing a dry test run on 2 plant 1975 / 1976 . mining supplied quite a lot of waste sand / ground. after the plant was in operation for about a year or so , we had a rare rainstorm - [ trucks could not use the haul road ] , Selvyn Lange , the plant supt. ordered to feed the left over test ground through the plant , and ... guess what - a large nuber of carats were recovered from that waste ground . and what this implies is that the ground used for the test run , and is [ I presume ] still at the bottom of the tailings dump might contain some diamonds
The big mighty 2 plant all gone