45 MILLION TONS OF IRON ORE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16869, 16 October 1920, Page 11

45 MILLION TONS OF IRON ORE.

NEW' MINES IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. LONDON, August 20. The new iron ore mines and plant of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Company, Limited, at Irthlinghorough, Northants, have just been opened oy Lord Ashfield. The company have acquired an estate of aboiit '3O(H) acres in Northamptonshire, tlio major portion of which has been proved by trial pits and boreholes, and the existence of a bed of iron ore, loft, in thickness, has been demonstrated. The ore available in the area is estimated at 45,000,000 tons, the mine has been laid out . to deal with" a minimum daily output of 2000 tons. It is developed by moans of a tunnel, approximately lOOOyard.s in lopgth, entering at the extreme southern end of

the property. The tunnel is 14ft. in diameter, and is bricked throughout. It is arranged with 1 a falling gradient, and serves as the drainage water outlet for the mine. The mine trams, each carrying three tons of ore, are brought from the working places in the galleries beyond the tunnel by tractors to collecting sidings, and arc worked out from the tunnel to the calcining plant by electric locomotives. The calcining plant is in close proximity to the discharge outlet of the mine, and the kilns are 16 in number. The equipment of the plant is electrical throughout.