After
completing the 30-mile haul to Stewart over the road built by the Granduc
company, which also bore the entire cost, the concentrate trucks end their
run at a complete marine-terminal, self-supporting with respect to all
facilities and built to load out concentrate to ships of 50,000-ton class
and to receive heavy fuel oil from tankers of the same size.
The terminal was designed to
handle three products.
1. Outbound concentrate:
indoor truck receiving, stockpiling by front- end loader, covered storage
for 15,000 tons, reclaim through floor grizzly, and conveyor transfer at
500 t.p.h. to a non- traveling, slewing shiploader. Berth face is 800 feet
long dredged to a 4O-ft. minimum water depth at low tide.
2. Inbound heavy fuel
oil: unloading by ships' pumps to two 90,000-gal., heated, storage
tanks and tank-truck loading for the return trip to the mine.
3. Inbound lime pebbles:
unloading by barge-mounted, pneumatic, conveyor system to two 300-ton
silos and gravity loading into truck-mounted boxes for transportation to
the concentrator.
A service building, 62 ft. by 38
ft., contained twin hot-water boilers and circulating pumps for tank
heating and two diesel generators rated at 300 and 350 k.w. for utility
power together with related auxiliary equipment and switch- gear, there
being not enough B. C. Hydro power available. Fire protection was provided
by well water on the site to a 12,000-gal. above-ground tank.
