Mancala’s highly skilled team of traditional miners have the ability to rehabilitate and repair historically significant mining heritage sites to today’s safety standards while retaining the outward appearance of a historical mine openings. Woking flexibly with the client, rehabilitation can be undertaken without interruption of the tourist attraction.
From coal mines in New Zealand to gold mines in Victoria, it is likely Mancala has made the tourist experience not only authentic by safe.
Typical work undertaken includes:
- Rehabilitation of narrow mine workings (1.0m x 1.8m);
- Timber lined tunnel rehabilitation;
- Multi compartment timber shaft rehabilitation;
- Installation of steel shaft collar work to blend into old period workings;
- Coloured and textured shotcrete spraying;
- Hiding of modern ground support elements behind traditional support to blend into historical workings;
- Steel set installation with timber coverings to blend into period workings;
- Drill and blast excavations to extend and blend in with old workings and
- Non drill and blast excavation for tourist mine to extend and blend in with old workings.
