Rock Drill & Concrete Abutment

Look up to your right if you are travelling the Myra Canyon Trail from Myra Station. Scan the top of the rock cut carefully and you will see an iron bar sticking straight up out of the rock. That is a rock drill which has been stuck there for over 100 years.

In these open rock cuts, the drill hole was packed with blasting powder to bring down the rock to be removed. Black powder was generally used on the KVR although dynamite was occasionally employed in various locations.

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