Identifier: transactions14cana (find matches)
Title: Transactions
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Subjects: Mineral industries Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Montreal (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Sidr \if\v of Shipping Pirr. at Waliina Iron Minr>.
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The Wabaxa Iron Mixes—Caxtley 291 With this simple apparatus, 1,000 tons per day of ten hourscan readily be handled. And although it might perhaps be under-taken more cheaply with steam shovels, yet the apparatus describedhas the advantage that its initial cost is only a fraction of that ofthe former, a consideration, especially as it is in operation notmore than 30% of the time. Surface Haulage System. To transport the ore from the mines to the shipping piersituated on the south side of the island, slightly morc than twomiles distant, a double-track tramway, operated by an endlesscable, is employed. The tramway is in the form of the letter**T, the head of which lies parallel and close to the outcrop ofthe Scotia bed and tapping the various surface pits and the mines,Xo. 1 to the we.st and Xo. 2 to the east of the long leg whichstretches in a straight line in a southerly direction across the islandto the shipping pier. The tramway is of 2-foot gauge and has two tracks, one forloaded

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