EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report serves as an appreciation of the practical and technical aspects of lashing, tramming
and hoisting at Pickstone Peerless mine by the trainee during the month of April 2023. This serves
as a documentation of the activities carried out during the mentioned period, observations made,
challenges encountered and recommendations.

TRAMMING.
Tramming is the practice used in connection with moving ore materials and labor horizontally
within a mine. Hand tramming involves pushing rail bound cocopans.

TRAMMING EQUIPMENT AT PICKSTONE PEERLESS MINE.

2 tonne cocopans on rail, wheel-barrows, shovels, wooden planks, whistles, sprag chains and pinch
bars.

OBSERVATIONS
Average number of cocopans trammed per day = 19

= 2 cocopans trammed per hour

Tramming actual against target number of cocopans

30

25

20

15

10

NUMBER OF COCOPANS TARGET

GRAPH SHOWING PRODUCTION VS TARGET

 Hoisting actual against target number of cocopans

45 45
40 40
35 35
30 30
25 25
20 20
15 15
10 10
5 5
0 0

AFTERNOON SHIFT NIGHT SHIFT TARGET

HOISTING ACTIVITY FROM 24/04/23 TO 13/05/23

From the graph above, it can be seen that in the timeframe under study no week was the target met.
This was due to delays which include:

 Transportation of explosives
 Travelling of personnel
 Breakdown of brakes
 Power cuts
 Readjustment of guide ropes
 Ladder maintenance at 5 Level
 Blasting and re-entry

Availability of ore is another factor affecting production especially during the night shift when
workers have to do tramming and hoisting. This is double handling of ore which is:

 Labor intensive
 Time consuming
 Costly
Hoisting delays

HOISTING DELAYS
MEN TRAVELLING LADDER MAINTENANCE 5L BREAKDOWN OF BRAKES
ADJUSTMENTS OF GUIDE ROPES TRANSPORTATION OF EXPLOSIVES PRODUCTION
BLASTING TIME

10% 2%
00%
%
1%
0%

87%

DELAYS AFFECTING HOISTING

From the pie chart above it can be seen that time lost due to delays accounts for 13% of total time
of hoisting, with the highest time loss being due to blasting and re-entry.

Details of hoist rope

Diameter of rope = 19 mm

Rope type and construction: Non spin 6X7 (6/1) WMC

Total suspended load = 1.5 tones

𝐷2
Mass of rope = 260

192
= 260

= 1.388kg/m

Area of rope = 0.405D2

= 0.405 X 192

= 146.205mm2

Rope breaking force = 247 KN (rated by manufacturer)