Monday, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:35
You're not wrong there, Paul. I've worked at Edjudina in February, doing gold tailings re-treatment, and the temperature was around 50 deg C.
Kalgoorlies official temperatures were around 47 and 48 degrees at the time.
I don't mind heat, but that was over-the-top, and I can still clearly remember that stinking blast-furnace heat, 30 years later.
And to think I was WORKING in it, operating loaders, shifting dirt, loading a truck with carbon leach tanks, and chaining them down! Even worse - neither machines, nor the truck, had air-conditioning!
Only one other time equals it, I went to an auction at
Eneabba in late February in the early 2000's -
Eneabba recorded 48.7 deg that day, and I can tell you, most people at the auction weren't bidding - they were gathered around the water tap like a flock of thirsty birds in the peak of Summer.
I was convinced the auctioneer was going to have a stroke or heart attack, he was red as a beetroot, and sweating like the proverbial pig.
Cheers, Ron.
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