After 130 years cooling comes to the oldest listed mine

As you mine deeper, sooner or later it’s going to get hot. And so it has at Barberton, although it has taken more than a hundred years. BBE Projects have recently commissioned a refrigeration and air cooling system at Barberton Mine’s Fairview Shaft to provide much-needed cooling for the on-going expansion into the deepening orebody. Barberton Gold Mine is a subsidiary of Pan African Resources Plc. It consists of three operations namely Sheba, New Consort and the Fairview Operation. Fairview is currently the deepest and will continue to go deeper and that is where the cooling was needed.