With 3 drills in hand the calcite blockage was attacked once again, the stal wall directly at the face of the dig was found only to be around 8" deep (this was discovered when the drill bit went all the way through), however this obsticle still proved to be very tricky and although only a small percentage of this remains it still proves an issue as it forms part of the overall jigsaw of calcited boulders.
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| The calcite blockage at the curent dig face (in white) |
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| All 3 of us in the dig - A month ago only 1 person could fit |
The boulder in the floor was drilled and plug and feather used, these proved semi effictive although the boulder is though to be much bigger than first thought and it would seem that the corners are wedged under the left hand wall and other boulders on top. The general conclusion is that we may not be able to lower the floor much more, although a good chunck of the roof was taken down to give a little more head room.
Then plan moving forwards is to excavate more of the right hand side of the passage, this is cuurently blocked with mud and calcite breakdown, this will give is far more leg room and may allow us to attack the calcite blockage from the side, best case scenario it may bypass it, our only concern is that we may loose the solid left left hand wall sending us off track.
Around 10 skips of mainly rock and calcite were removed to Talus with the walled stacking area becoming almost full.
Total time underground: 5.5 hours.
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