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| Air mover |
A device for forcing vent air into a dead vent area. Usually by Bernoulli |
| Airleg |
Supports and pushes the machine |
| Airleg miner |
A person who uses an airleg and machine to bore |
| ANFO |
Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil.
Used as an explosive |
| Backs |
The top of the mine tunnel. AKA the ceiling |
| Bang |
A general term for explosives |
| Beethoven |
An instrument to set off the electric detonator to initiate an explosion |
| Bog |
What the Bogger does. Cleans the area of broken (fired) rock |
| Bogger |
A machine used to load broken rock. AKA loader |
| Bore |
What the jumbo does in mechanised mining. Drills the holes into the rock |
| Box cut |
Area between the surface and the portal |
| Brace |
An area adjacent to a headframe on the surface |
| Brattice |
A barricade wall erected to effect the flow of ventilation |
| C spanner |
A tool for working with poly pipe couplings |
| Cage |
A conveyance used within a shaft, mostly for people to get to the
underground workings |
| Cageman |
The person who controls the movement of the cage |
| Carton |
The price you pay when you do something stupid, and someone sees |
| Cavo |
A pneumatically operated rubber tyred machine used to load broken rock
into a gramby |
| Crib |
Food consumed through-out the shift |
| Crib room |
A place where a worker stores and perhaps consumes his crib |
| Crosscut |
A point along a drive where a level can be reached |
| Cut |
One cycle of bog bore fire. Usually increases the drive advance by
between 3 and up to 6 metres |
| D. B. R. |
Drop Board Regulator. A segmented cover over a vent so as to regulate the
flow of air |
| D.P.U. |
Drill Positioning Unit. The jumbo 'boom head' where
the joint allows positioning of the drill angle |
| Decline |
A drive that has been designed to advance downward usually 1 in 9 |
| Emulsion |
A paste form of explosive |
| Explosives |
A number of products designed to fill a bored hole and detonate to cause
the rock to break up |
| Face |
The end of the drive where the jumbo will bore another cut |
| Fire |
After the drilled holes are charged with explosives the face is fired |
| Fracture |
A type of explosive |
| Gig rise |
An internal conveyance usually just between two levels |
| Gimpie |
Small 'sledge' hammer |
| Gramby |
A tub on railwheels which a miner fills with broken rock usually with a
Cavo |
| Grizzle sheet |
A sheet denoting a mine worker's weekly pay workings out, given out
before payday |
| Grizzley |
A steel grid where broken rock is dumped, too large a material will not
go through. See spaller |
| Gummies |
The boots worn by underground workers |
| Headframe |
The frame work above the shaft which supports the sheave wheels |
| Heading |
An actively advancing drive |
| Incline |
A drive that has been designed to advance upward usually 1 in 9 |
| Interplat bells |
A system of interplat communication with the Cageman used to call the
cage |
| ITH/ DTH |
This is a drilling process where the hammer travels with the drill bit
down the hole |
| Jumbo |
A mechanised machine for mounting a rockdrill |
| Kettle |
A pressurised vessel used to store ANFO that is about to be loaded into a
drilled hole of a face |
| Kibble |
A large bucket usually for concrete that is hoisted within the shaft |
| Knocker line |
The wire rope attached to the backs from which the vent bag hangs |
| Level |
A working level of a mine reached by a cage or crosscut |
| Lifter tube |
Poly pipe of a size to snuggly fit into the lower (lifter) holes in the
face to prevent water ingress |
| Loco |
A conveyance used within a level in a rail mine and used to pull the
grambies to the grizzley |
| Machine |
Hand held rockdrilling machine |
| Marlon |
Heavy thread used with a needle to sew holes in the vent bag |
| Nipper |
A helper who assists the jumbo operator to achieve his cuts |
| Open cut |
A mine that is open to the air. A very large hole in the ground |
| Oxybox |
A newer style self rescuer containing oxygen for breathing in the event
of underground fire |
| Pigsty |
An arrangement of timbers stacked two over two etc so as to support the
backs |
| Plat |
An area adjacent to the opening of a shaft at an underground level |
| Plod |
A card or sheet filled out at the end of each shift so as to get paid |
| Portal |
The point where a boxcut becomes an underground drive |
| Raisebore |
A large diameter ventilation hole often from a level to the surface. Can
be updraft or downdraft |
| Rake |
A man riding conveyance used within an overlay |
| Ramp |
A roadway between the surface and portal where the portal is located
within an open cut mine |
| Rattle |
To scale the backs using the jumbo |
| Rise |
A large diameter hole excavated near vertically |
| Rockbolt |
A device for supporting the backs. There are several types |
| Rockdrill |
A percussive drill, can be a small hand held upto a large jumbo mounted.
Pneumatic or hydraulic |
| Scale |
To bring down loose rock in a controlled manner usually manually from the
backs |
| Self rescuer |
A device used for breathing in the event of fire, converts carbon
monoxide to carbon dioxide |
| Shaft |
A vertical excavation from the surface to the mine working levels |
| Sheavewheel |
A pulley wheel where the winder rope changes direction from shaft to
winder |
| Shotcrete |
A cement aggregate sprayed onto the backs for support |
| Signal bells |
A system of bells the Cageman uses to communicate with the Winder driver |
| Skip |
A shaft conveyance for broken rock to be hoisted to the surface |
| Skipman |
The person who controls the filling and movement of the skips |
| Spaller |
Large edge faced 'sledge' hammer for breaking rock by hand on the
grizzley |
| Steel sets |
Arch shaped steel frames used to support the backs often used at the
portal |
| Stinger |
A newer battery operated version of a beethoven |
| Stope |
A large excavation of ore bearing material |
| Stope ladder |
A ladder used by an airleg miner to access his stope |
| Switchback |
A 180 degree turn on a ramp |
| Tag |
An identifying personal pendant with a person's name and often photograph |
| Tag board |
A board where a person entering a mine working area will hang his tag |
| Timberman |
An underground worker who often constructed brattices, pigsties, wooden
sets etc. using timber |
| Tram |
To move a diesel machine around |
| Underlay |
A shaft that is not intended to be vertical. Can be 45 degrees |
| Vent bag |
Attached to a vent fan a long large diameter plastic tube used to blow
air to a mine heading |
| Vent fan |
A large fan used to ventilate a mine |
| Victaulic |
A type of galvanised steel pipe work for water, compressed air and dewatering within a mine |
| Winder |
The machine that hoists the conveyances |
| Winder driver |
The person who operates the winder. He controls the winder as directed by
the Cageman |
| Winder rope |
Attaches the conveyances to the winder for travel up and down the shaft |
| Winze |
An internal shaft where the top does not reach the surface |
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