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ELECTRIC POWER IN GOLD MINING.

As an illustration of the success atl--tained in the electric transmission of power for gold mining p"rposes, the result of four months' running of the plant erected at the Sheba Mine, Barberton, South Africa, will be interesting. Two alternating currents are used, the electric power is transmitted through cables five miles long, and the mill works night and day; never stopping save for an occasional ex-! amination of the' machinery at the generating or receiving end of tb^e Jines.: For the fou? njonths ending February 29, the mi^ljworked nighf and day, with stoppages aggregating in that time only on© day and a half in all. This amount of stoppage was made up of a quarter of an hour here and twenty minutes there to take up a belt, adjust a rope, examine a bear= ing, or give to the plant any of the little attentions always required from time to time by running machinery. The record, as it stands, forms an undeniable tribute to the success of power transmission by electricity, and it will be obvious that what has been done at Sheba can be done elsewhere. The plant hac been running continuously for over twelve months.

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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 275, 26 September 1896, Page 7

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ELECTRIC POWER IN GOLD MINING. Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 275, 26 September 1896, Page 7

ELECTRIC POWER IN GOLD MINING. Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 275, 26 September 1896, Page 7