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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers
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To: LoneClone who wrote (67892)11/5/2009 12:34:52 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 78408
 
It sounds like to me it was an electrical failure. Pump failure, sump level alarm and switch failure likely. Could be overload, a breaker. But someone should have known that the pumps were not working overnite. If the discharge was at the tailings dam, perhaps as far as 1/2 mile away, it might not have been that easy to check on the spot. The cage tender and mine personnel should have given thought to descending away slowly with caution to see if they could pick something up. What is seem to me that they hauled back up after some time, and decided since the cage was swamped that it would be dangerous to send anybody back down there without known the water level. It would seem to me the men got out the top of the cage too deep to make it back up to air in time. Then again they would not have been able to tread water long in that cold water. You would think they could get to the manway when they got to surface, but it is blocked in between levels. Bearer timbers and support timbers for the cage guides can be stood on, but they are usually 30 feet apart, and climbing the shaft is not on. They may have been 500 feet down by the time they got out, and it would be difficult to make it back to the surface from that deep especially weighed down by tools, and mine muckers etc..

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