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"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 ...
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.
Marion 6360, also known as The Captain, was a giant power shovel built by the Marion Power Shovel company. Completed and commissioned on October 15 1965, [ 1 ] it was one of the largest land vehicles ever built, [ 2 ] exceeded only by some dragline and bucket-wheel excavators .
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.
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The Bucyrus Erie 3850-B power shovel named "Big Hog" 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 (88 m 3). After it finished work in the mid-1980s, it ...
India is the world’s third-largest energy consuming country, although its energy use and emissions per person are less than half the world average, data from the Paris-based International Energy ...