Australian coal miner GVK Hancock is to implement a combined dragline and bucketwheel excavator system to move overburden at its Alpha coal project which it reckons to be the most efficient and cost ...

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 ...

As we discussed in the previous part of this series, Westmoreland Coal (WLB) acquired certain Canadian operations from Sherritt International. These operations include seven surface mines producing ...

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 ...

During the era of steam power, the earliest excavators and cranes were purpose-built machines. You ordered a crane, a shovel, a dragline, a skimmer, or a primordial backhoe, and that was that. As one ...