The Steel bucket will easily hold a large family car and hold upwards of 20 tons of earth in each scoop of the bucket.These draglines and their giant buckets dominated the North Northamptonshire ...

Workers in Conroe were gearing up Tuesday to haul a colossal, 63.4-metric ton dragline excavator - essentially, a giant shovel - overnight to a coal mine near Austin. The 130-mile trip to Elgin was to ...

When gold was discovered in Alaska at the end of the 19th century, it was individual miners who initially exploited the resource using picks and shovels and other rudimentary equipment. As easy ...

ALKOL, W.Va. — A very large piece of equipment that has played a significant role in the West Virginia coal industry in the last three decades will soon be turned off for the final time on top of a ...

The mine dragline bucket at the entrance to the Capella Industrial Park was refurbished to its former glory as part of CQMS Razer's 40th anniversary. CQMS Razer, Gerada Engineering, SunCity Signs and ...

Using an innovative and groundbreaking approach, Luminant recently transported four draglines to new mining areas on a specialized 1,000-wheel vehicle DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pioneering a new ...

FRANKLIN, Kan. — A walking dragline used decades ago for coal and clay mining in Southeast Kansas is about to go on the move again. This time, with a little help. The entire Page 618 walking dragline ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FRANKLIN, Kan. — The Miners Hall Museum will host a program, “Moving a Giant: Behind the Relocation of the Page 618,” at 2 p.m.

WASHBURN, N.D. (AP) - One of the huge draglines that digs for coal at a central North Dakota mine has tipped over. The incident happened Wednesday at the Falkirk Mine near Washburn. A mine spokesman ...