MINE COOLING PROFESSIONALS

Mine Cooling Professionals has been servicing the underground mining community since 1996. At this time the homestake gold mine in Lead SD was looking for a solution for cooling the air the miners in the underground drifts of the homestake gold mine, the largest and deepest underground gold mines in North America at the time. With the help of the miners at homestake the company founder Jim Swaby designed and built from scratch the first underground spot cooler - the unit was small enough to fit in a loader bucket, made with a ¼" steel exterior for protection and was easily repaired in the mine, it provided 30 tons of cooling power down the drifts to cool the men working in the mine. It was installed in the mine the next year and was a great success, over the next 9 years 47 more coolers were built and installed in the mine, they were an integral part of keeping the miners cool and productive in the mine. Since the closure of the homestake mine more spot coolers have been built and sent..