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The mining never stops, but Kennecott’s massive open pit grows — slowly
The scale is astonishing: nearly 100 trucks, each one carrying 320 tons ... of digging what was once the world’s largest open-pit mine. Today it employs more than 2,300 employees, including ...
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How the Bagger 293 and its ilk are redefining the scale of modern mining
The Bagger 293’s primary task is to work at the Hambach Surface Mine in Germany, one of the world’s largest open-pit coal ...
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China deploys electric mining trucks to accelerate mines' green transformation
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- China has initiated the large-scale operation of its domestically developed 120-tonne pure-electric mining trucks in open-pit mines, marking a breakthrough in the ...