Crews with Kiewit-Alberici Joint Venture install the conveyor truss over U.S. Highway 85. The truss is about 8-by-8 feet around and will be about 1,800 feet long.
Photo by KAJV
This graphic shows the path excavated rock will take from the 4850 Level to the Open Cut in Lead.
Graphic courtesy Fermilab
Crews use a crane to place a segment of the conveyor system on its support bents above U.S. Highway 85 in Lead. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/DUNE project will use ore passages from the Homestake Goldmine.
Photo by KAJV
An overlook of the Open Cut is shown, where rock will be deposited from the 4850 Level excavation as part of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/DUNE project.
LEAD | Although the conveyor over U.S. Highway 85 in Lead was installed as part of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, Joshua Willhite said work won’t be completed on the system until the end of the year.
Crews with Kiewit-Alberici Joint Venture install the conveyor truss over U.S. Highway 85. The truss is about 8-by-8 feet around and will be about 1,800 feet long.
Crews use a crane to place a segment of the conveyor system on its support bents above U.S. Highway 85 in Lead. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/DUNE project will use ore passages from the Homestake Goldmine.
An overlook of the Open Cut is shown, where rock will be deposited from the 4850 Level excavation as part of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/DUNE project.
