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heathcote
 Post subject: Re: The Hun on the Run
PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:09 pm 
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We were producing that year on year.
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Nidge2
 Post subject: Re: The Hun on the Run
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grandad wrote:
"Since coming into production in April 1995, Asfordby has produced 1.5 million tonnes of coal."
The 1.5 million tonnes you mentioned wasn't production coal, it was development coal also 1.5miilion tonnes for a supposed "Super Pit" was a pittance. Many pits smaller than Asfordby were producing more than 1.5million tonnes a year.

When I went down there I'd never seen so much water and so many pumps trying to keep the water out, the bank heads were flooded, machines were half under water and it was still pouring in.
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 Post subject: Re: The Hun on the Run
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Nidge2 wrote:
grandad wrote:
"Since coming into production in April 1995, Asfordby has produced 1.5 million tonnes of coal."
The 1.5 million tonnes you mentioned wasn't production coal, it was development coal also 1.5miilion tonnes for a supposed "Super Pit" was a pittance. Many pits smaller than Asfordby were producing more than 1.5million tonnes a year.

When I went down there I'd never seen so much water and so many pumps trying to keep the water out, the bank heads were flooded, machines were half under water and it was still pouring in.

Yes I know. It was a crap pit put in a crap place.

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Nidge2
 Post subject: Re: The Hun on the Run
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grandad wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
grandad wrote:
"Since coming into production in April 1995, Asfordby has produced 1.5 million tonnes of coal."
The 1.5 million tonnes you mentioned wasn't production coal, it was development coal also 1.5miilion tonnes for a supposed "Super Pit" was a pittance. Many pits smaller than Asfordby were producing more than 1.5million tonnes a year.

When I went down there I'd never seen so much water and so many pumps trying to keep the water out, the bank heads were flooded, machines were half under water and it was still pouring in.

Yes I know. It was a crap pit put in a crap place.


It wouldn't be open now what with the German rules wanting all our pits shut.
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 Post subject: Re: The Hun on the Run
PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:28 pm 
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Daw Mill held the record in 2008 it excavated 3.25 million tons

maybe the seam helped.............five METRES thick, so thick they had the biggest face supports ever used in the UK, and took 12 feet out and 12ft retreat and still left enough to consider going back in for it

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 Post subject: Re: The Hun on the Run
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This a Daw Mill coal face

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Our faces were 6ft (retreat), 48" and 36" advance, no way can you compare the 2 pits


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Daw Mill was the largest operating underground coal mine in the United Kingdom and is now closed. It was mining the Warwickshire thick seam, which is up to 7m thick in places. A peak of 3.2MTPA was achieved in 2008. Average daily production was budgeted at 15,000 tons per day from the long-wall face.

The face supports were two leg shields with a capacity of 850 tonnes. The face cutting height was between 5.0m and 5.2m. At least 0.6m of coal was left in the roof to maintain roof stability. The supports were 1.75m wide operat-ing on the SPL method.

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Look at the size of them mother feckin faces, ours were 36 inches high but could still pump out close to 1million tonnes a year.
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Nidge2 wrote:
Look at the size of them mother feckin faces, ours were 36 inches high but could still pump out close to 1million tonnes a year.


went past Joy mining down near Worcester and one was on display, huge....


"Heights from 0.8 to 7.8 meters"

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