Ed turned up early to reduce some boulders with the drill and plug and feathering before the rest of us arrived. Once Ed had finished the last of his batteries with one last boulder, Estelle & Harley started digging. Harley on the right, Estelle on the left. Checked the boulder James had reported last week on left and it doesn't particularly feel like it will imminently go, so cleared the spoil created from rocks being dropped last week before mostly digging downwards to clear out the large step we'd created following the hole in the top and draught. Easy digging as always and found a piece of what looked like fossilised bone in amongst the quite 'gravelly' spoil. Fairly certain the 'gravelly' grey spoil is crushed coral or similar, although it does look like unset concrete! After all 38 buckets filled and Ed finished moving more rocks around to work on levelling the proposed new haul in the bottom chamber. Ideally a 'railway' like at the top as it will be hard to stop it tipping off the hole in the floor side with conveyor belt as it stands. All buckets taken to surface and emptied and then headed to the Hunters.
(photo by Estelle of Harley in the end dig)
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