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started by betsy stone on 18 Jul 14
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    The top of the well casing 16 is provided with an oper ating platform 23 on which a suitable housing 24 is positioned for equipment needed for mining operations.Hoisting equipment is provided in the housing 24 for lowering a hoist cage 25 in the vertical shaft 15,used stone crushing machine. All of the equipment necessary for the sulfur production is lowered through the vertical shaft 15 and is preferably positioned in recessed portions of the horizontal tunnel 17. For example, one or more of the sulfur storage bins 26 are cut in the tunnel floor. The bins 26 may be lined, if desired, as by cement or any metallic lining and are preferably provided with heating coils 27 for melting the sulfur if it becomes solidified in the bin.

    The reheating coils 27 may be of the hot water circulating type and are operatively connected to distributor 28. One or more pumps 30 are provided for withdrawing molten sulfur from its storage bin 26 and pumping it up a discharge line 31 to the surface. Fresh water storage bins 32 are cut in the floor of the horizontal gallery 17 and are lined for,trommel for alluvial mining containing the water to be used in the operations. Facilities to heat the water to be introduced in the formation are provided on pile-supported or floating surface equipment 33, or may be installed underground. If surface equipment is used, the heated water is pumped down shaft 15 through conduit 48 and forced into the formation melting the sulfur. Shaft 15 or other shafts connecting with the underground galleries are available to carry the pipe to circulate fresh or cooled air underground and exhaust used or heated air from below. Sulfur is recovered from the deposits by drilling vertically up through the roof ofthe horizontal gallery 17 into the sulfur deposit 12.

    Two concentric pipes 34 and 35.are sealed in a fluid-tight manner in the shaft by a suitable seal 37, which may be made of any suitable material such as a thermo-setting resin. The innermost pipe 34 carries the hot Water to the sulfur bearing formation, while the outer pipe 35 is connected by means of a discharge conduit 38 with the sulfur storage bin 26.As hot water is pumped into the sulfur bed 12, the sulfur is melted and separated from other matter, such as limestone and flows in a molten condition through conduits 35 and 38 to the storage bin 26. Since the mining is done from below, no air is needed to force the sulfur out of the mining cavity 39. A bed of collapsed limestone is shown in the bottom of the cavity 39.

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