Page 35 - 00 Volume 5 The Mine
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“Flying Fox” operator Harry MacDonald taking a break. The photo looks towards the West with the pit to the
right. The Holland farmland is to the left. The “Flying Fox” was soon to be replaced with conveyors when the
pit moved to the West and Harry “graduated” to the newly assembled electric 120 Bucyrus Erie (to be later
nicknamed the “120-B”. This new machine was assembled on site using the unreadable Russian instructions - a
trial and error process.
With the 12-B removing overburden in the background, the Flying Fox continued to operate. The steel hawser
can be seen running across the picture above the workman. The volume of earth that needed removal can be seen
here - all of which was dumped into the existing Kimihia Lake over the coffer dam in the background.
