2 Plant

[Alfred Boehme]

Tommorrow morning at 08h00 we will be putting the power off to 2 plant and the tunnel and will remain off the end of another era

[Michael Alexander]

Will the tunnel flood?

[Patricia Lotte]

They can turn off as many lights as they want, they will never turn off the lights we have within us ... They can take us out of Oranjemund, but they will never take Oranjemund out of us ... and I think this website is the best proof of that  e154

[Alfred Boehme]

Will the tunnel flood?

Yes and they will be closing the top no more tunnel

[Michael Alexander]

mmmh!

[Michael Alexander]

i ALWAYS THought that the tunnel would have made a good tourist attraction.....

[Alfred Boehme]

I think the dangers around the tunnel at the moment are high they are going to close the top with a steel plate, if they want to reopen it later for tourist attraction that can be done got some pics will post them later

Alfred

[georg ruf jr.]

Hi Alf. this sounds like a bad joke. But I think you're being serious.

[Michael Alexander]

Phew! That was close.... I had visions of them filling the tunnel in...... Put at least we see that they have the wisdom of just sealing it up....

My mate and ex Oranjemunder, Wayne Handley, who works for Nature conservation, was on the mine on Friday with a group of people, They were looking at the rehabilitation of the mine after mining..... he was last on the mine 19 years ago, and commented how quiet the place looks.... reckons the bucket wheel has just been abandoned to the elements... this machine was the pride and joy of CDM.... anyhow the point here, was what to do with the old hostels like Mittag and Affenrucken..... the mine wanted to demolish them and replant the desert.... but alas... some wise thinker reckons they can revamp them into tourist camps and info centres and create jobs..... so all is not lost.....

[SandyB]

Hope prevails .. more wise thinkers . more input .. lets see what  happens ? ......

[georg ruf jr.]

I remember the bucket wheel arriving in OM. It was a small sensation. It came from some German compony. Thyssen, Krupp?? Can't remember. Now it's one compony. In some way!

[Michael Alexander]

I think it was Krupp... there were two the 400 and then the bigger 800, when I worked at 50G we had the honour of joining thos ebig fat cables to keep the blerrie thing powered whenever they moved it....

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

I was involved of the emergency pwr for that monster, i think it was Ohrenstein & Koppel, i look on one of my films, should be on there

We had a wagon with a generator to pwr up when pumps and normal power failed. That was just enough to move the excavator out of the danger zone.

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Here in my HP cant read the maker
http://www.dersofaladen.de/edelsteine/html/body_diamant5.html

[Alfred Boehme]

Hi Alf. this sounds like a bad joke. But I think you're being serious.

Georg Power is off and nature is doing it's job the tunnel will fill up over a week or two lets seen what happens in a year or two