Millard County Chronicle | 1912-08-22 | Page 1 | Fill Mines with Sand.

Fill Mines With Sand. The owners of msny mines In Eur-pe Eur-pe and Australia fill the abandoned workings with sand, so tbst the mines isy become once more a part of the olid crust of the earth. Old, worked-til worked-til mines are often a menace to build-igs build-igs or communities above tbem; and rotectlon by timbering, which Is the mrlcan method, affords security for 0 great length of time. Sand filling as been practiced In the mines of estern Australia for the last four-en four-en years. W. II Storms, writing 1 the Engineering and Mining Jour-I, Jour-I, says that the cost In Australia is taut 20 rents for each too of ore elected.