Jul 17, 2020 Big Brutus is the largest electric mining shovel still standing in the United States. The behemoth machine is located in West Mineral, Kansas. About
The Captain was the Largest Single Mining Shovel Ever Made. By: The Working Man Weighing in at close to a whopping 28 million pounds of raw steel and iron, the Marion 6360, appropriately known as "The Captain" was the single largest mining shovel ever made in the world. And, it was the only Marion 6360 ever manufactured.
Jan 29, 2017 Big Brutus is the world's largest electric shovel, standing 16 stories in the fields of southeast Kansas. The coal mine it helped dig has long been shut down, and Brutus has been turned into a
Nov 14, 2015 The Silver Spade was a giant power shovel used for strip mining in southeastern Ohio. Manufactured by Bucyrus-Erie, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the model 195...
Big Brutus West Mineral, Kansas. Big Brutus near West Mineral, Kansas was the world's second largest electric mining shovel when it was in operation in from 1962 to 1974. Now it is a tourist attraction. Big Brutus is 160 feet tall and weights 11 million pounds. These giant electric shovels, and the earlier "draglines" that they replaced, were an important part of the Kansas strip mining
Komatsu Mining Corp. is the world’s largest producer of electric mining shovels and a leading producer of surface mining equipment including blasthole drills, walking draglines and wheel loaders. We offer solutions worldwide for use in the mining and processing of essential minerals.
Aug 19, 2016 And Big Brutus — the world’s largest electric shovel — is the last vestige of southeast Kansas’ heyday in the mining industry. Travel along the back roads and there are glimpses of ghost
Electric rope shovels From their ultra-rugged lower works to their spacious machinery decks and classic, twin-leg style handle-and-dipper configuration, P&H electric rope shovels have earned a place as a preferred loading tool for high-production, high-efficiency mine operations.
Jul 17, 2020 Big Brutus is the largest electric mining shovel still standing in the United States. The behemoth machine is located in West Mineral, Kansas. About 135 miles southeast of Wichita and 26 miles
Big Brutus West Mineral, Kansas. Big Brutus near West Mineral, Kansas was the world's second largest electric mining shovel when it was in operation in from 1962 to 1974. Now it is a tourist attraction. Big Brutus is 160 feet tall and weights 11 million pounds. These giant electric shovels, and the earlier "draglines" that they replaced, were an important part of the Kansas strip mining
Aug 19, 2016 And Big Brutus — the world’s largest electric shovel — is the last vestige of southeast Kansas’ heyday in the mining industry. Travel along the back roads and there are glimpses of ghost
Jan 22, 2018 Technically a Bucyrus-Erie Model 1850B electric dragline shovel, Big Brutus was built in 1962 (at a cost of $6.5 million, or about $51.6 million in today's dollars) for the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Company's strip-mining operation in West Mineral, Kansas. What it lacked in speed it topped out at .22 miles per hour it made up for in volume: A single scoop from its bucket could fill
Komatsu Mining Corp. is the world’s largest producer of electric mining shovels and a leading producer of surface mining equipment including blasthole drills, walking draglines and wheel loaders. We offer solutions worldwide for use in the mining and processing of essential minerals.
largest electric shovel in the world; 16 stories tall (160 feet) weight 11 million pounds; boom 150 feet long; dipper capacity 90 cu. yds (by heaping, 150 tons — enough to fill three railroad cars.) maximum speed .22 MPH; cost $6.5 million (in 1962)
P&H Electric Mining Shovels 4 Komatsu Mining Corp. Group Komatsu Mining Corp. Group 5 Productive solutions for all mine types 1900XPC 2300XPC 2800XPC 4100C Nominal pay load 18 mt 45.4 mt 59.0 mt 81.6 mt 20 st 50 st 65.0 st 90 st SAE struck 9.9 m 318.3 25.5 m 26.8 33.6 m3 42.8 47.7 m 13.0 yd3 24.0 33.0 yd3 35.0 44.0 yd3 56.0 62.0 yd 3 Nominal dipper capacity –
Dec 20, 2013 The shovel loading capacity is 40m³ with a breakout force of 2,320kN. The excavator is powered by two 16-cylinder Cat 3516B diesel engines producing up to 4,000hp at 1,800rpm. Komatsu PC8000-6. Komatsu PC8000-6 has an operating weight of up to 710t, making it the fifth largest hydraulic mining excavator.
Apr 13, 2016 No longer the world's largest, and replaced by drag lines, the famous shovel uncovered 80 million tons of coal in over two decades. The story explained how Peabody was going to bury it in its
Aug 17, 2010 Many of the extreme machines on our list have spent time in mines, but only the Bucyrus RH400 has made a cameo in a Michael Bay film. The world's largest hydraulic shovel
The P&H 4100XPC mining electric rope shovel from Komatsu, the preferred ultra-class shovel choice for high-production low cost mines around the world, is ideal for loading in-pit crusher-conveyor systems and ultra-class haul trucks.
Feb 01, 2019 The museum includes Little Giant, the world’s smallest working replica of an early-day electric mining shovel. It was built to scale with one inch representing one foot of a real machine. Little Giant electric mining shovel. After wandering around the museum for a little while, we headed outside to check out the full-size version.
World's Largest Electric Shovel . West Mineral, Kansas. Biggest Attraction in Southeastern Kansas! From the brochures: Designed and built by Bycyrus-Erie for the Pittsburs and Midway coal Mining Co., the 1850-B, one of the world's Two Largest Shovels, is an engineering accomplishment. the years prior to construction, such a project would not
A power shovel (also stripping shovel or front shovel or electric mining shovel or electric rope shovel) is a bucket-equipped machine, usually electrically powered, used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction. Power shovels are a type of rope/cable excavator, where the digging arm is controlled and powered by winches and steel ropes, rather than hydraulics
At 160 feet high and weighing in at a jaw-dropping 11 million pounds, this gargantuan electric shovel that operated on 15,000 horsepower is the largest electric shovel in the world.
Big Brutus West Mineral, Kansas. Big Brutus near West Mineral, Kansas was the world's second largest electric mining shovel when it was in operation in from 1962 to 1974. Now it is a tourist attraction. Big Brutus is 160 feet tall and weights 11 million pounds. These giant electric shovels, and the earlier "draglines" that they replaced, were an important part of the Kansas strip mining
World's Largest Electric Shovel . West Mineral, Kansas. Biggest Attraction in Southeastern Kansas! From the brochures: Designed and built by Bycyrus-Erie for the Pittsburs and Midway coal Mining Co., the 1850-B, one of the world's Two Largest Shovels
Feb 01, 2019 The museum includes Little Giant, the world’s smallest working replica of an early-day electric mining shovel. It was built to scale with one inch representing one foot of a real machine. Little Giant electric mining shovel. After wandering around the museum for a little while, we headed outside to check out the full-size version.
Komatsu Mining Corp. is the world’s largest producer of electric mining shovels and a leading producer of surface mining equipment including blasthole drills, walking draglines and wheel loaders. We offer solutions worldwide for use in the mining and processing of essential minerals.
Aug 19, 2016 And Big Brutus — the world’s largest electric shovel — is the last vestige of southeast Kansas’ heyday in the mining industry. Travel along the back roads and there are glimpses of ghost
People watch an operation demonstration of the WK-75 mining excavator produced by the Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, June 5, 2012. The large equipment, about 37.5 meters in length, 17.3 meters in width and 2,000 tons in weight, is the largest mining excavator in the world.
Joy's new 135-ton electric-powered shovel, expected to be available about a year from now, is 22 meters (72 feet) tall. At present, Joy's biggest shovel can lift 120 tons and costs about $30
The large tonnage mine truck equipped with electric shovel is 180-360 wheeled in the world. It is the largest wheeled vehicle in the world, and has a height of 3 meters per light. For a long time, China's mining machinery has been relying on high price imports.
Apr 13, 2016 No longer the world's largest, and replaced by drag lines, the famous shovel uncovered 80 million tons of coal in over two decades. The story explained how Peabody was going to bury it in its
Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline excavator owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (formerly a division of American Electric Power), weighing 13,500 short tons (12,200 t) and standing nearly 22 stories tall.It operated in the U.S. state of Ohio from 1969 to 1991.
May 31, 2017 Surface mining existed as well, but it wasn’t until the big shovels came on in the 1940s and 1950s that strip mining began to take a larger portion of the state’s annual coal production. Generally it is economic to strip mine when there is a 20:1 ratio of overburden-to-coal seam, meaning, for example that a three-foot coal seam can be
The explosion of oil crisis in 70s stimulated the world's coal demand, and P&H's sales volume of mining machinery increased sharply. In 1978, P&H introduced the 5700 type electric shovel, which was the largest double shoe shovel in the world. P&H 5700 made 5 units. The first one was LR type.
Electric rope shovels From their ultra-rugged lower works to their spacious machinery decks and classic, twin-leg style handle-and-dipper configuration, P&H electric rope shovels have earned a place as a preferred loading tool for high-production, high-efficiency mine operations.