Material ropeway

Material ropeways are typically found around large mining concerns, and can be of considerable length. The COMILOG Cableway, which ran from Moanda in Gabon to Mbinda in the Republic of the Congo, was over {{cvt|75|km}} in length. The Kristineberg-Boliden ropeway in Sweden had a length of {{cvt|96|km}}.

Conveyors can be powered by a wide variety of forms of energy, such as electricity, engines, or gravity (particularly in mountainous mining concerns, or where running water is available).{{cite web |last=Decker |first=Kris De |url=http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/01/aerial-ropeways-automatic-cargo-transport.html |title=Aerial ropeways: automatic cargo transport for a bargain |date=26 January 2011 |website=lowtechmagazine.com |publisher=Low Tech Magazine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907005719/http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/01/aerial-ropeways-automatic-cargo-transport.html |archive-date=7 September 2012 |access-date=28 January 2011 }} Gravity-driven conveyors may qualify as zip-lines, as no electricity is used to operate them, instead relying on the weight of carts going down providing propulsion for empty carts going up.

Double-rope (bi-cable) ropeways, have a stationary carrying rope and a separate hauling rope that controls their movement. Single-rope (mono-cable) ropeways use one carrying-hauling rope.{{Cite web |title=Types of ropeway - LEITNER |url=https://www.leitner.com/en/company/useful-information/types-of-ropeway/ |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=www.leitner.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Ropeways - Double and Mono-Cable Systems |url=https://www.environmental-expert.com/products/double-and-mono-cable-systems-587503}}

The first recorded mechanical ropeway was by Croatian Fausto Veranzio who designed a bicable passenger ropeway in 1616.

The world's first cable car on multiple supports was built by Adam Wybe in Gdańsk, Poland in 1644. It was powered by horses and used to move soil over the river to build defences.{{cite web |last=Masłowski |first=Aleksander |url=http://www.rzygacz.webd.pl/index.php?id=37,288,0,0,1,0 |title=Adam Wijbe (1584?-1653) |website=rzygacz.webd.pl |publisher=Akademia Rzygaczy |language=pl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061203001822/http://www.rzygacz.webd.pl/index.php?id=37,288,0,0,1,0 |archive-date=3 December 2006}}

In Eritrea, the Italians built the Asmara-Massawa Cableway in 1936, which was {{cvt|75|km}} long. The Manizales - Mariquita Cableway (1922) in Colombia was {{cvt|73|km}} long.

Amongst the first material ropeways in India was the Amarkantak Ropeway{{Cite web|date=2021-04-20|title=Tracing the course of infra technology Indian ropeways have been using since the 1970s|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/infrastructure/tracing-the-course-of-infra-technology-indian-ropeways-have-been-using-since-the-1970s/2236957/|access-date=2021-06-15|website=The Financial Express|language=en-US}} in Chaktipani, Korba, Chhattisgarh, which was {{cvt|16.8|km}} long with capacity of 150 TPH constructed by Damodar Ropeways & Infra Ltd. (DRIL) (formerly known as (Damodar Enterprises Ltd. (DEL). It was made for Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) in collaboration with Nikex, Hungary.

In the United Kingdom, aerial ropeways used for conveying mining goods and materials were historically common; however, just one remains in existence and operation, in Claughton, Lancashire, constructed in 1924 and used for quarrying shale to make bricks. It is scheduled to be demolished in 2036, once the last of the shale has been quarried.{{cite web |last=Scott |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Scott (entertainer) |title=The UK's last aerial ropeway uses no power, moves 300 tonnes a day, and will be gone by 2036. |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=6RiYXI1Tfu4&feature=youtu.be |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/6RiYXI1Tfu4 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|date=12 July 2021 |website=youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nationaltransporttrust.org.uk/heritage-sites/heritage-detail/claughton-aerial-ropeway |title=Claughton Aerial Ropeway |website=nationaltransporttrust.org.uk |publisher=National Transport Trust |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210720102828/https://www.nationaltransporttrust.org.uk/heritage-sites/heritage-detail/claughton-aerial-ropeway |archive-date=20 July 2021 |access-date=20 July 2021 }}

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• [http://www.trainweb.org/italeritrea/teleferica1.htm La Teleferica Massaua-Asmara (pictures of Ethiopian ropeway)] www.trainweb.org
• [http://www.crspl.com Conveyor & Ropeways Services Pvt. Ltd.] www.crspl.com
• Low-tech Magazine: [http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/01/aerial-ropeways-automatic-cargo-transport.html "Aerial ropeways: automatic cargo transport for a bargain"]
• Financial Express: [https://www.financialexpress.com/infrastructure/tracing-the-course-of-infra-technology-indian-ropeways-have-been-using-since-the-1970s/2236957/ "Tracing the course of infra technology Indian ropeways have been using since the 1970s"]
• [https://youtube.com/watch?v=7JTWc6jWZ9Q&feature=youtu.be An Unedited, Rain-Soaked Ride on Claughton's Aerial Ropeway]
• [https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/TrentonBleichertSystemofAerialTramways_10298216 Trenton-Bleichert System of Aerial Tramways]
• [https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/TheBleichertSystemofWireRopeTramways_10266675 The Bleichert System of Wire Rope Tramways]
• [https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/WireRopeTransportationinAllItsBranches_10438149 Wire Rope Transportation in All Its Branches]
• [https://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/EANSW/article/download/4315/5028 Aerial Rope Transport by J. W. Mackie (1916)]

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