Open pit mining equipment

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As mining equipment , the machine will be designated that deplete a deposit in surface mining are used.

These include in particular Eimerketten- , paddlewheel , spoon and draglines that the clearing of the overburden and mining of the raw material used. It also includes conveyor bridges , stackers and other conveyor systems, as well as special track-moving machines and bulldozers ( scraper bucket ).

Conveyor bridge F60 with two deep-cut bucket chain excavators

literature

  • Mining Lexicon . In: Hermann Franke, Hans Grothe (ed.): Lueger Lexikon der Technik . 4th completely revised and expanded edition. tape 4 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1962, p. 547 .