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<blockquote data-quote="Troutman" data-source="post: 409954" data-attributes="member: 8744"><p>I never realised the Super Pit was so close to the town. I was there for a short time in 1984 as a 19 year old, working on the footings for a new head stack when it was WMC and owned by Alan Bond and the thing I most remember is how many old unknown shafts and tunnels were there. </p><p></p><p>One day just before a concrete pour into a 2 metre by 2 metre by 2 metre footing the guy working next to me dug a bit deep in a corner of the dirt hole and this leg disappeared down a shaft. Luckily for him it was a diagonal tunnel and only his leg went through. The builders and surveyors etc. were called in and everyone stood around scratching their heads saying "we didn't know that was there". That was it for our working that day and we got to sit and watch as they called in concrete trucks full of extra wet mix which they just kept pouring down the hole until it filled up. I think we counted 23 truckloads. No doubt they dug up all of our hard work when the Super Pit began. </p><p></p><p>It really was still the Wild West back then, just ask Bondy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Troutman, post: 409954, member: 8744"] I never realised the Super Pit was so close to the town. I was there for a short time in 1984 as a 19 year old, working on the footings for a new head stack when it was WMC and owned by Alan Bond and the thing I most remember is how many old unknown shafts and tunnels were there. One day just before a concrete pour into a 2 metre by 2 metre by 2 metre footing the guy working next to me dug a bit deep in a corner of the dirt hole and this leg disappeared down a shaft. Luckily for him it was a diagonal tunnel and only his leg went through. The builders and surveyors etc. were called in and everyone stood around scratching their heads saying "we didn't know that was there". That was it for our working that day and we got to sit and watch as they called in concrete trucks full of extra wet mix which they just kept pouring down the hole until it filled up. I think we counted 23 truckloads. No doubt they dug up all of our hard work when the Super Pit began. It really was still the Wild West back then, just ask Bondy! [/QUOTE]
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