Complex sentence: The ore was transported on an aerial tramline which consisted of over 280 steel, 3 ton buckets travelling underground and surfacing three quarter miles west of the 2066 foot vertical MacLeod Shaft, then continuing the remaining two miles to the sinter plant on overhead cables.
Split into simpler sentences: The ore was transported on an aerial tramline that consisted of over 280 steel three-ton buckets travelling underground and then surfacing three-quarters of a mile west of the 2,066-foot vertical MacLeod Shaft. The tramline then continued the remaining two miles to the sinter plant on overhead cables.