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Gwyn
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17 years ago

What's the "chute" (if that's what it is) in the picture, please?

Photograph:

🔗Calvert-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-001[linkphoto]Calvert-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-001[/linkphoto][/link]

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Vanoord
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17 years ago

It would look like a chute for sending ore down to the bottom of the tip whilst allowing waste to be dumped either side? The tip looks not dissimilar to one of the Cwm Bychan ones.

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LAP
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17 years ago

I would agree, with the ore being processed on the level lower down.

Kein geneis kanaf - Cain gnais canaf
Byt vndyd mwyhaf - byth onddyth moyav
Lliaws a bwyllaf - Líows o boylav
Ac a bryderaf - ac o boryddarav
Kyfarchaf y veird byt - covarcav yr vairth
Pryt nam dyweid - poryth na'm dowaith
Py gynheil y byt - Pa gonail y byth
Na syrch yn eissywyt - na soroc yn eishoyth
Neur byt bei syrchei - nour byth bai sorochai

Gwyn
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17 years ago

Thanks for that, it makes sense.
Mr. Vanoord, do you mean Cwm Bychan, below Foel Grach near the source of the Caseg?

Heb
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17 years ago

I think that the Calvert chute was used when the mine was being worked for fluorspar (1940's). From what I remember, the bit at the bottom was made out of the back of a tipper lorry or something similar, It formed a hopper for loading lorries which would then take the spar to a central dressing plant.

Gwyn
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17 years ago

Thanks Heb, it makes sense now!