Venting device installed 2000m up Pike River mine drift

Pike River Recovery Agency workers putting the ventilation control device more than 2000m up the drift. Photo / Made

A ventilation control device has been installed in the Pike In a mine which means fresh air can rotate more than 2000m up the drift.

A post regarding social media by the Pike River Restoration Agency said the device, VCD2, was already installed on Tuesday.

It is sitting about 2224m up the drift and acts as a wall when using airlock.

That it is in place, fresh air will be able to choose to be circulated right up to that point in one particular drift.

Consequently mine workers wearing long-duration inhaling and exhaling apparatus will go through an airlock doorstep in the wall, tunnel through the terme conseillé which is about 10m, and catch up the last few metres to the roof show up.

They can next carry out the final forensic searches to your drift.

Upcoming that will be the completion of the forensics search and recovery operations over the Pit, Bottom in Stone ~ a 600m network of souterrain off both sides of the main souterrain, which had previously been “roped off” as a potential crime enviroment.