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Side Dump Car, Tipped
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Side Dump Car, Upright
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Side Dump Cars
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Battery Tramming Motor
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Battery Tramming Motor
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Mine Cage and Car
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Mine Cage and Car

Cars were hoisted to surface in the cage for dumping. Most cages had two sets of doors so that the car could be pushed out of the headframe away from the landing area and out of the back onto a dump. It can be seen that when the car is the cage there is very little room for anything else.

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Production Hoist
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Production Hoist, Rear View
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Production Hoists

Production hoists were all sizes and powered by compressed air or steam. Most production hoists were compressed air operating with two cylinders. Their efficiencies were fairly high and they required very little maintenance other than lubrication. The hoist would be housed in a small building and set up on a concrete base. The ropes would be wound on the drum of the hoist and then go through holes in the roof or wall to the sheave wheels above the shaft on top of the headframe. Ropes were made of steel wires braided together to make a rope about one inch in diameter. The size used depended on the depth of the shaft, the drum diameter and the weights to be raised and lowered in the shaft.

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Sinking Bucket
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Sinking Bucket
9 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Cobalt Mining Plaque Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
11 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14

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Map of the Historic Cobalt Camp Mining Sites Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
11 April 2006
The Heritage Silver Trail, Town of Cobalt and Coleman Township, Ontario, Canada. Site #14