Open pit mining equipment
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 ).
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 .