The Fulton School
Week 3: Fred Weber and New Frontier Materials Continued
On Monday I spent the whole day researching competitors for a quarry in Texas and compiling the data in a spreadsheet.
On Tuesday I went with Ken Kampman to the Hannibal Limestone Strip Mine. We spent the day 400 feet underground setting metal pinsk in the ground. These pins are used by the miners to ensure that they are mining in the exact grid pattern that is on the plans. Without these reference points, it is very likely that they would not mine in straight lines as it is easy to lose a sense of direction underground
On Wednesday I went with Dennis Sullens, the safety guy at FW. We went to the Festus FracSand Mine and the Herculaneum Loading Docks. This mine was really cool and we got to see the operation from blasting the sandstone all the way to loading the barges with it.
I spent Thursday with Ken mapping the Festus mine to measure how much material had actually been removed.
Good Friday is a holiday at New Frontier and FW so I had Friday off.
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It looks like one of the pictures has a survey tool in it. Were you surveying the area before putting the pins in? If so, how easy/hard was it to use the survey tool?
Was it hard to be underground for that long? I feel like it would be hard for me to be underground that long.