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The Dolakha-Sindhupalchwok ropeway is an ropeway conveyor connecting the talc and magnesium mine at Kharidhunga with the processing plant at Lamosanghu in Nepal. It is one of the longest ropeways in Nepal, crossing two districts: Sindhupalchok and Dolakha. The talc plant used to be 3rd largest talc plant in South Asia.
Kharidhunga mine This page was last edited on 22 July 2013, at 00:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4. ...
Kharidhunga mine; Khimti I Hydropower Plant; S. Sipring Khola Hydropower Station; U. Upper Tamakoshi Hydroelectric Project This page was last edited on 6 October 2021 ...
The mine is famous for its production of pink Khewra salt, often marketed as Himalayan salt, and is a major tourist attraction, drawing up to 250,000 visitors a year. [7] Its history dates back to its discovery by Alexander 's troops in 326 BC, but it started trading in the Mughal era . [ 8 ]
Nepal has been mining in small scale for iron, copper, lead, zinc, cobalt, nickel and gold. Old mine pits, adits, smelting places and other remnants of mine processing are found all over Nepal. Some villages are sometimes named after mineral names such as Taba Khani, Falam Khani, Shisa Khani or Sun Khani. Before 1951 (2007 BS) Nepal was an ...
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Ropeways in Nepal, which mainly refer to the aerial ropeways, are used for human and cargo transport. In the ‘ Nepal Country Report’ of 1976 by the world bank concluded that construction and maintenance of roads in mountainous are costly due to hilly terrain, and thus other means of transport should be studied mainly indicating to the ropeways.
A steam-powered dragline was used to mine the placer deposits of Peters Creek, below the canyon that cuts through the Peters Hills. The tailings of that operation can be seen today, and the area is part of the Petersville State Recreation Mining Area. A cluster of deposits is in the main part of the Yentna district, near the Dutch Hills.