LONG WIRE ROPE
FOR WORLD’S DEEPEST MINE TO BE MADE IN BRITAIN Two special steel ropes, each over li miles long and about two inches in diameter, have been made in Britain for a winding hoist at the Champion Reef Mine in the famous Kolar Goldfield, Mysore, Southern India.
Although, the maximum load hoisted by each is about 25 tons, the guaranteed breaking strain for each rope is more than 150 1 tons.
The ropes are for the primary vertical shaft, known as the Giffold Shaft, 6556 feet deep, part of a big expansion scheme for which additional capital of £230,0010 was raised in 1936 for deepening the main shaft and installing new plant and equipment which will give India the distinction of having the world’s deepest vertical shaft.
The consulting engineers who evolved the scheme are a London firm and the manufacturers of the ropes supplied salvage ropes for lifting the German Fleet at Scapa Flow, as well as the mooring ropes for the “Queen Mary” and “Queen Elizabeth.”
The ropes for the Champion Reef Mine each weigh 2501 tons and will cost £l3OOO. They will be installed about April, 1940.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2864, 17 November 1939, Page 7
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192LONG WIRE ROPE Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2864, 17 November 1939, Page 7
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