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Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB288 [2] built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons. [3]
Trainer Refinery is an oil refining facility located in Trainer, Pennsylvania. The facility is downstream from the Port of Chester and fifteen miles southwest of Philadelphia along the Delaware River. Stoney Creek is along its northern perimeter. The Trainer Refinery is owned by Monroe Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines. Monroe Energy ...
Company houses for miners employed by the Benito Mining Company, Benito, Kentucky, 1946 A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch, [1] is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to the site to work the mineral find.
Project Runway: Threads is a spin-off reality competition based on Project Runway. It premiered October 23, 2014 on Lifetime . The series features skilled teen and tween fashion designers.
Small coal at one time referred to charcoal, but this usage is obsolete. [31] Snap or bait. Snap, bait or piece is food taken to eat part way through the shift and often carried in a snap tin. [32] Sough. A sough is a drainage tunnel to take water from coal mines without the need to pump it to the surface. [1] An example is the Great Haigh ...
Only afterwards could he learn the skills, as an apprentice hewer (Lehrhäuer), that he would later need as a hewer. [2] This form of training, the acquisition of knowledge by experience, was practised in mining until the First World War. [3] From the 1920s, the training of hewers was legally regulated as a result of union demands.
In 1990, 2.1 billion kg of commercial explosives were consumed in the United States (12 m 3 per capita), representing an estimated expenditure of 3.5 to 4 billion 1993 dollars on blasting. In this year the Soviet Union was the leader in total volume with 2.7 billion kg of explosives consumed (13 m 3 per capita), and Australia had the highest ...
Tenke Fungurume Mining SARL was initially drilled around 1900 by Union Miniere, then by state owned Gecamines, then an Anglo American joint venture in the 70s, then Adolph Lundin in the 90s, then Phelps Dodge of the U.S, with a 57.75% share and the Congolese companies Tenke Mining Corp. (24.75% share) and Gécamines (17.5% share).