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Whilst driving from Wardlow Mires to Great Longstone last night, I noticed a large crown hole has opened up in the backfilled ground over Deep Rake. Has anyone been through from Sallet Hole no.2 to no.1 recently? I'm wondering whether there's been a collapse in the workings, or whether the backfill in the opencut has settled. I'll try and go back for a photo later.
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17 years ago
OK, some photos:
The collapse, looking East from the road crossing Longstone Edge.
[img]http://www.aditnow.co.uk/photo/Sallet-Hole-No1-adit-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-026[/img]

Looking into the collapse - it seems to go at the bottom but those big rocks in the unstable side make me a little reluctant to climb down... :ohmygod:
[img]http://www.aditnow.co.uk/photo/Sallet-Hole-No1-adit-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-027[/img]
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17 years ago
Gaaah, the images won't display! :curse: They're in the Sallet Hole no.1 album....
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Brakeman
17 years ago
The collapes ground you noticed is the infill settling in the opencut.
The management thanks you for your co operation.
toadstone
17 years ago
Adam, is that "face" shown on the photo looking into hole, mother earth? Whatever it is an awaful lot of fill has gone somewhere.

I wanted to get across to take an aerial at the weekend but I'm low on fuel and had to head towards Manchester before finding some for the weeks work!! Hopefully situation better this coming weekend.
Vanoord
17 years ago
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Brakeman
17 years ago
Don't forget the mining method used here abouts is sub level caving, with subsidence of the overlying ground occuring.

Also the open cut infil has a lot of tailings slurry in it, this has settled and run into the lower parts of the mine badly now. At least half of the lower levels are filled now with slurry.

The management thanks you for your co operation.
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17 years ago
"redlion" wrote:



Also the open cut infil has a lot of tailings slurry in it, this has settled and run into the lower parts of the mine badly now.



Well, it makes a change from it running down Stoney Middleton dale, I suppose!
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17 years ago
2000 tons of tailings went into the bottom of deep rake before they topped with waste and waste rock and they are expecting to push the sides in and then get another 200 t into the void thats left!
[i]I am always upto my neck in it!
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15 years ago
while working in sallet hole in around 1990 we were long holeing on i think g drive memory bad,for names, anyway 2 of us were chareing holes through an air breech and one guy was mucking out a slit at the side ok us, i was on a tower scaffold using the chargeing tube when i felt a large blast of air from above so i jumped off the scaffold running and round the corner of slit and down the heading, the slit had run bringing alsorts down with it including fenceing and old drums this was somewhere under longsone edge possibly hodges old spar rake so that what has come in could be from open ground left as some of it was not to far from the surface so it wouldnt suprise me. also alot of the lower levels mainly at the end of the adit past the old chargeing staition go left and keep going down and not up the incline was very wet and sticky we salvaged all the old rings from down there at around the same time. tom

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