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The Bagger 288 was built for the job of removing overburden before coal mining at the Hambach surface mine in Germany. It can excavate 240,000 tons of coal [6] or 240,000 cubic metres of overburden daily [7] – the equivalent of a soccer field dug to 30 m (98 ft) deep. The coal produced in one day fills 2400 coal wagons.
A mining simulator is a type of simulation used for entertainment as well as in training purposes for mining companies. These simulators replicate elements of real-world mining operations on surrounding screens displaying three-dimensional imagery , motion platforms , and scale models of typical and atypical mining environments and machinery.
The working hours of the hewers varied from region to region and ranged between 10–12 hours, but the time taking entering and leaving the mine was not counted. For one week of hired work in 1617 a hewer was paid just 18 Mariengroschen. This week's wages would not even buy a pound of butter at that time.
Thread Routes is a 16mm film series by artist Kimsooja.. Divided into six chapters, Thread Routes takes place in six different cultural zones around the world. The artist considers her approach to this film as a 'visual poem' and a 'visual anthropology', in that it juxtaposes and presents structural similarities in performative elements of textile culture with the structures in nature ...
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.
Direct reduction processes can be divided roughly into two categories: gas-based and coal-based. In both cases, the objective of the process is to remove the oxygen contained in various forms of iron ore (sized ore, concentrates, pellets, mill scale, furnace dust, etc.) in order to convert the ore to metallic iron, without melting it (below 1,200 °C (2,190 °F)).
The Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum is a museum documenting the history of the isolated Broad Top coalfield in south central Pennsylvania.The museum is operated by the Broad Top Area Coal Miners Historical Society; its president is with Ron Morgan, the museum curator.
Henry Tompkins (or Thomas) Paige Comstock (c. 1820–September 27, 1870) was a Canadian miner after whom the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, was named. The Comstock Lode was the richest silver mine in American history.