OUR PROJECTS

Providing the Complex Infrastructure Needed to Build Better Communities

Two men standing at top of blind bored mine ventilation shaft

Man welding liners into place for mine vent shaft

Liner being installed in mine ventilation shaft

Drill head being lifted by crane on mine site in North Goonyella

North Goonyella Ventilation Shaft No 4

Due to our success in completing works at North Goonyella Ventilation Shaft No. 4, Abergeldie was engaged to bore and line the mine’s Ventilation Shaft No.

The Shaft was bored from surface to 84m depth at 6.8m diameter and steel lined through Tertiary strata. Then remainder of the shaft was completed at 6.15m diameter to coal seam level at 272m total depth.

Client

Peabody North Goonyella Coal Mines

Year

2007

Region

QLD

Total Drilled Depth

Diameter

Steel Lined Section (84m deep)

Diameter

Composite Lined Section (85-272m deep)

Scope of Works

Design and construction of an access road.
Construct of all surface works, including settling ponds required for the reverse circulation process.
Establish on-site facility to pre-cast and cure composite steel and concrete shaft lining segments.
Manufacture and install 5.2m diameter composite reinforced concrete and steel liner from surface to 272m depth.
Construct concrete collar and presinks.

Complexity