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Meaning of "headframe"
headframe (noun): A structure used over a mine shaft to support the winding mechanism for raising and lowering the cage or skip
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- the structure supporting machinery above the entrance to an underground mineshaft.
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Extant examples of this type of headframe are now uncommon.
The remains of the lift structure are extant within the headframe.
Cables went to the headframe through the opening in the wall.
A mullock dump is located immediately west of the headframe.
It is the largest wooden headframe still standing in Arizona.
On the surface above the shaft stands a building known as the headframe.
The headframe is a rare example of a surviving timber headframe in North Queensland.
Concrete foundations of a timber headframe survive.
The concrete headframe of the Sauwartan coal mine will surprise you during your hike.
Only two other examples of this type of headframe are known to exist.
The headframe at the Cigar Lake facility.
Evidence of a tramline running from the sawmill directly towards the headframe is still visible.
The wooden headframe was dilapidated, and the framework of the shaft was falling to pieces.
This beach is calm and quiet, resting in the shadows of a restored mining headframe.
In the subsequent period, the headframe and other above-ground facilities were added.
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However a fire destroyed the timberwork of the winding engine and part of the headframe in 1984.
Production headframe at Canada 's longest continually operating underground gold mine.
The HVAS is located approximately 150 meters downwind from headframe No.1 and mine ventilation exhaust.
The headframe was a simple, two-storey, wooden building with a shallow gable roof.
It is probably the only wooden headframe from the 19th century preserved in Europe.
The headframe is a 106 foot high steel-framed structure clad in corrugated steel siding.
Sinking headframe shaft Göttelborn 4.
Such a headframe is attached to the patient 's head, during CT or MRI, and surgery.
The third headframe was built in 1955 of concrete with metal facing.
The original headframe was wooden ; the current structure was built as a replacement in 1920.
