The ore would be hoisted from the bottom of the working area of the mine. It would be emptied into a small bibor flask, emptied into a skip and finally lifted to surface. When arriving on the surface the ore would be discharged onto a conveyor belt. This in turn would deliver the ore and dump it into rather large ore bins. If you look carefully at the picture, you will see a small switch with an arm attached. In the event of too large a piece of ore coming on to the belt, the piece of material shown across the belt would hit the switch and stop the belt.

The Babitless Crusher. The first in the line of crushing. The rock then goes into a washer and after goes through various processes before it gets to the Symons Crushers.

This is the Magnetic Separaters that were constantly working in the South Crofty Mill.

The mill’s crushing ability was helped with two Symons Cone Crushers. 3ft in diameter and able to crush the rock down to .75 inch and 2mm. Small shoots fed the ore to the crushers. The small arm over the outlet is a level switch. If the rock started to overflow, then the switch would come into effect and the operation would close down until the fault had been rectified.

A view of the Ball Mill that was installed in South Crofty Mill. The shiny surfaces on this machine are the result of the drum running on large industrial tyres. It was a new idea tried out by the company but was quite successful. Tyres had to be changed occasionally as they did wear.

The vibratory tables that were installed in the Mill.