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The only Marion shovel that compared (in size and scope) to "The Captain" was the Marion 5960-M Power Shovel that worked at Peabody Coal Company's (Peabody Energy) River Queen Surface Mine in Central City, Kentucky. It was named the "Big Digger" and carried a 125-cubic-yard (96 m 3) bucket on a 215-foot-long (66 m) boom. It was Marion Power ...
"The world's largest shovel" as Prine describes it in the song, the Bucyrus Erie 3850-B was used for excavation at Paradise and ultimately buried there. "Paradise" is about the devastating impact of surface mining for coal, whereby the top layers of soil are blasted off with dynamite or dug away with steam shovels to reach a coal seam below, in ...
It is postulated the name was descriptive, for settlers who considered the setting to be paradise [6] when they arrived around 1797. [7] [8] A post office was established on March 1, 1852, and it remained open until March of 1967. [3] [9] [10] Paradise was a coal mining town. Production of coal in the area dates back to the 1820s. [11]
In June 1997, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter came to the hills of Eastern Kentucky on a Habitat for Humanity project called “Hammering in the Hills,” an ambitious plan to build 52 houses in one ...
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A 2010 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found employees in the coal mining industry are more likely to be killed or injured, and their injuries are more likely to be severe, than ...
The Bucyrus Erie 3850-B Power Shovel named "Big Brother" went to work next door to Paradise Fossil Plant for Peabody Coal Company's Sinclair Surface Mine in 1962. When it started work it was received with grand fanfare and was the largest shovel in the world with a bucket size of 115 cubic yards.
Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas, United States, where it was used in coal strip mining operations. The shovel was designed to dig from 20 to 69 feet (6.1 to 21.0 m) [ 1 ] down to unearth relatively shallow coal seams , which would then be mined with smaller equipment.