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A material ropeway, ropeway conveyor (or aerial tramway in the US) is a subtype of gondola lift, from which containers for goods rather than passenger cars are suspended.

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 in length. The Kristineberg Boliden ropeway in Sweden had a length of
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). 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.

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. In Eritrea, the Italians built the Asmara Massawa Cableway in 1936, which was long. The Manizales Mariquita Cableway (1922) in Colombia was long. Amongst the first material ropeways in India was the Amarkantak Ropeway in Chaktipani, Korba, Chhattisgarh, which was 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.

Ropeway line / Company System Type Support type Length Fall/Rise City/State Country In operation NotesAmerican Agricultural Chemical Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood Searsport, Maine Maine Insane Hospital Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 1,050 feet 150 feet Augusta, Maine 1899 Plymouth Cordage Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Steel 1,150 feet Plymouth, Massachusetts Farnam Chesire Lime Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood Chesire, Massachusetts Cayuga Lake Cement Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 2,340 feet Ithaca, New York 1901 Magnetic Iron Ore Company Trenton Bleichert 290 feet 25 rise Benson Mines, New York Solvay Process Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 16,500 feet 239 feet Syracuse, New York Warner's Portland Cement Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,056 feet 48 feet Syracuse, New York Catskill Cement Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 4,170 feet Smith's Landing, New York Witherbees, Sherman & Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 3,668 feet 406 feet Port Henry, New York United States Military Academy Trenton Bleichert Double rope Iron 1,640 feet West Point, New York 1901 Edgewater Lime Works Trenton Bleichert Double rope 360 feet 20 feet Edgewater, New Jersey 1901 Vermont Marble Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,600 feet Proctor, Vermont 1894 New England Talc Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 2,400 feet Stockbridge, Vermont Pottsville Iron and Steel Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,100 feet 70 feet Pottsville, Pennsylvania Cambria Steel Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Steel 3,260 feet Johnstown, Pennsylvania Curwensville Fire Brick Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 2,337 feet Bolivar, Pennsylvania 1903 Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company Trenton Bleichert Single cable reversible West Shenandoah Colliery, Pennsylvania Keystone Plaster Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,500 feet Chester, Pennsylvania Keystone Plaster Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,400 feet 200 feet East Brady, Pennsylvania St. Bernard Coal Company Trenton Bleichert Single cable reversible Wood 600 feet Earlington, Kentucky East Shore Terminal Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 700 feet level Charleston, South Carolina East Shore Terminal Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 650 feet level Charleston, South Carolina Pulaski Iron Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 960 feet 494 feet Buchanan, Virginia Royal Coal and Coke Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 2,800 feet 820 feet Prince, West Virginia Bagdad Chase Gold Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood Atlanta, Idaho 1903 1931 Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 9,000 feet 713 feet Wardner, Idaho 1891 Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,200 feet 370 feet Wardner, Idaho Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 320 feet level Minneapolis, Minnesota St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood Koehler, New Mexico United States Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood Bingham, Utah Highland Boy Gold Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 12,700 feet Bingham, Utah Highland Boy Gold Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 20,975 feet Bingham Canyon, Utah 1910 Utah Consolidated Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood Bingham Canyon, Utah Yampa Smelting Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood Bingham, Utah Vallejo Tunnel and Mine Company Hallidie Single rope Wood 2,400 feet 600 feet Little Cottonwood, Utah 1872 1874 North American Copper Company Leschen Double rope Wood 16 miles Grand Encampment, Wyoming 1904 Nevada Gypsum Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood Mound House, Nevada Gold Prince Mine Tramway Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood Animas Forks, Colorado 1906 Compromise Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 3,200 feet 920 feet Aspen, Colorado Aspen Public Tramway Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 9,850 feet 2,409 feet Aspen, Colorado 1890 1893 Carbon Coal and Coke Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Steel Trinidad, Colorado Old Hundred Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 1,850 feet 1,050 feet Howardsville, Colorado Victor Fuel Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,850 feet 57 feet Hastings, Colorado St. Bernard Coal Company Trenton Bleichert Single cable reversible 2,370 feet Denver, Colorado Old Hundred Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 760 feet 515 feet Howardsville, Colorado Old Hundred Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 1,610 feet Howardsville, Colorado Silver Age Mining and Milling Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 6,240 feet 989 feet Idaho Springs, Colorado Sunnyside Extension Mine Huson Single rope 2,279 feet Silverton, Colorado 1891 Ross Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double cable reversible Wood 1,400 feet 524 feet Silverton, Colorado Iowa Gold Mining and Milling Company Trenton Bleichert Double cable reversible Wood 8,625 feet Silverton, Colorado Shendandoah Dives Mining Company Double rope Wood 10,000 feet Silverton, Colorado 1929 1960 Pay Rock Mine Huson Single rope Wood Silver Plume, Colorado Smuggler Union Mine Trenton Bleichert Double rope 3,150 feet Creede, Colorado Bachelor Commodore Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 3,310 feet Creede, Colorado Bachelor Commodore Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Single cable reversible Wood 850 feet 400 feet Creede, Colorado Smuggler Union Mine Trenton Bleichert Double rope 400 feet Telluride, Colorado San Juan Mining Company Leschen and Sons Double rope Wood Telluride, Colorado Colorado Fuel & Iron Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 2,370 feet Denver, Colorado Keane Wonder Mine Double rope Wood Death Valley, California Four Metals Mining Company Montgomery Double rope Wood 5,5 miles Keeler, California 1909 1914 Inyo Cerro Gordo Mining and Power Company Leschen Double rope Wood 5,6 miles Keeler, California 1914 1959 Morning Star Mine Tram Double rope Wood Keeler, California Mountain Ledge Gold Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 5,800 feet 1,600 feet Sierra City, California Saline Valley Salt Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 13,5 miles 3,000 feet Swansea, California 1913 1936 Eureka Slate Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 13,300 feet Slatington, California United Concentration Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 6,600 feet 1,820 feet Monte Cristo, Washington Oregon Gold Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 5,000 feet 2,000 feet Cornucopia, Oregon Old Dominion Copper Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,250 feet Globe, Arizona 1892 Keeler, Holcombe & Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 7,500 feet 1,850 feet Kelly Switch, New Mexico Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 2,500 feet El Paso, Texas Bi Metallic Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 9,750 feet 1,225 feet Granite, Montana Granite Mountain Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 8,750 feet 1,207 feet Granite, Montana Chilkoot Trail tramways Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 8,250 feet/7 miles 1,070 feet Chillkoot Pass, Alaska 1898 Nowell Gold Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 11,600 feet 2,297 feet Juneau, Alaska Mond Nickel Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 11,400 feet Victoria Mines, Ontario Laurentide Pulp Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,500 feet 15 feet Montreal Compania Metalurgica de Torreon Trenton Bleichert Single cable reversible Wood 1,453 feet 730 feet Coahuila, Mexico La Gran Fundicion National Mexicana Trenton Bleichert Double rope Wood 8,650 feet Santa Catarina, Mexico San Toy Mining Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Steel Chihuahua Thomas & Spillane Trenton Bleichert Double rope 825 feet 425 feet San Luis Potosí Cia. Manufacturera de Ladrillos Areniscos Trenton Bleichert Double rope 1,950 feet Coah Trinidad Asphalt Company Trenton Bleichert Double rope Iron 5,100 feet 80 feet La Brea, Trinidad Compagnie Heitienne Trenton Bleichert Double rope Iron 12 miles Port de Paix, Haiti Vivero Iron Ore Company Mina de la Silvarosa Trenton Bleichert Double rope Iron 625 feet Vivero, Spain 1899 British Australian Oil Company Bleichert Double rope Steel 3.5 miles 500 feet Murrurundi, New South Wales, 1911 1915 Carried oil shaleHoskins Iron & Steel Single rope Steel 0.75 miles Cadia, New South Wales 1918 1928 Carried iron oreKandos Cement Company No.1 Single rope Steel 3 miles Kandos, New South Wales 1915 Carried limestoneNo.2 Single rope Steel 3.25 miles Kandos, New South Wales 1920