First trip of the new year and progress was very slow due to the current limit being tightly compacted with boulders that have been calcited together creating a solid lump of rock, we set about trying to located cracks or edges to the rocks, but due to the calcite 'glue' this proved difficult if not impossible, we had mixed sucsess with the new shorter (stronger) plugs and feather made by Mark earlier in the day, but many more attempts will be required to make further progress.
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| The current dig face, the drill is resting on the calcite boulders. Photo: Estelle Sandford |
The passage remains wide and there is still no sign of a solid floor, air is exceptionally good even after 4 hours with 3 people at the dig face digging hard (using alot of air).
The next trip will again see few skips due to the slow process of breaking rocks up, a total of around 12 skips were taken to Talus on this trip with the 'Great Wall of Whitepit' now hitting the ceiling.
Total time underground: 4.5 hours
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