Hollie London, Trevor Hughes with Kushy as surface support.
On site at 1500 .
Drilling and firing 5 holes at 550 long with 40g in the rock rib between the solid walls and one hole 550 long with 20g on the western wall.
All done by Hollie assisted by myself.
A nice sharp detonation at about 1700, heard by Kushy at the farm but “no louder than a shotgun”. Trevor.
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| View from the bottom looking up. Photo HL. |
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TH drilling holes, looking North. Photo HL. |
Afternoon session. John Cooper and Mike Kousiounis. Dry and cool
following rain earlier. Mike started with 1½ hours on the breaker before John
arrived. Then another 1½ hours hauling 42 heavy loads out. Kushy reckons more
breaker work could be done but he may bang it. 3 hours. John.
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| Looking North. Photo MK. |
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| Looking South. Photo MK. |
Sam Hill and Adrian Miles. All cleared ready for bang….. Sam.
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| Looking North. Photo SH. |
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| Looking South. Photo SH. |
Pete Hillier, Adrian Miles, Trevor Hughes.
40 quite decent sized loads hauled up the shaft. More to be done and breaker work needed.
2 hours. Trevor.
Mike Kushy, Trevor Hughes, Adrian and Henry (Adrian's son) Miles and John Cooper.
Busy day lots going on, we estimate 100 buckets cleared minimum since last charge. We all took turns doing different jobs.
TH assisted AM on a supervised set up, all went off well. Heck of a shockwave, everyone seems quite excited about the potential of it opening up soon.
5 hours. Mike.
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HM on double lifeline and cows tails watching TH and AM set up below. Photo MK. |
Mike Kushy, Tuska and John Cooper. MK and T to begin with. After a few hours fettling the dumper truck we got it moving and unloaded on the big spoil heap (I'll leave Tuska to go into details about that with the Templeton team). We then set about clearing TempleTwin around 1pm, T on surface and MK clearing (massive amount of gravel!). JC arrived around 1.30 and the 3 cleared until 3.30, 45 buckets cleared. Still just more gravel and no sign of solid yet so more clearing to be done and I have a suspicion the breaker is going to earn its value next session. The limestone on the eastern wall looks to be going soft (this'll be the void areas I kept hitting whilst drilling), the limestone is rotten with a 6 inch band of mud next to it. A dry day until 3pm, then very damp. 9.45m deep, but we're at least 10m in reality. Mike.
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| Before clearing. Photo MK. |
Mike Kushy and John Cooper. Arrived at 10.30am. With JC on surface MK drilled holes and set charge. Same amount as usual but felt considerably more powerful. Drilled into a couple voids in the Eastern wall. Fumes flew out again. 2 hours. Mike.
