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Satellite,
gem, has one of the componies three draglines)
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Satellite, has two of the companies three draglines)
The railroad is BNSF/NP.
"The Freedom Mine delivers approximately 16 million tons of coal per year, making it the largest lignite mine in the United States in deliveries. The Freedom Mine uses three Bucyrus-Erie 2570 draglines for overburden removal and reclaims about 600 acres of land annually" [
BasinElectric]
Quinn Lickman
posted five photos with the comment: "Marion loading a Cat 789 bottom dump. Photos by Michael Hubert."
Jeff Nielsen: James Joe Dewar Beulah North Dakota
Myron Dudenbostel: Nice work! I used to run a Marion 181 M with a 12 cu/yd bucket. What is the size of that bucket?
Don Kesterson: Myron Dudenbostel 27 cubic yard coal bucket.
Dorman Hardesty: Neat, never seen a 789 set up as a belly-dump.
Jeff Nielsen: I learned to be a shovel operator on that very shovel back in the early 80's. 191Marion 62ft.long sticks. Nice shovel to operate.
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James Joe Dewar commented on Quinn's post Made by Mega Corp, biggest coal hauler ever produced carried 320 tons if memory serves, Bismarck Wy I think Coteau
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I found just one dragline and...
...and one large shovel.
I found more equipment doing reclamation work than mining because they use normal sized equipment for reclamation. This view has a road grader at the top and a dump truck and bulldozer at the bottom.
Later I found the other two draglines in a mine southeast of the one that
gem documented. I included the old strip that is being covered as well as the new one that is being exposed.
And the southern most strip has a shovel removing coal.
Here is what the mining operation looked like in 2003. The power and gasification plants are in the lower-left corner of this excerpt.
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A tub was replaced in 2018.
This view shows the rails that were coated with beeswax on which the tub was slid out.
The old tub is behind the house and the new one is in front.
1:55 video about their third dragline, Frontier. This 2570 came from Illinois. It cost $70m to move it, but that is about half the cost of a new one.
How many mines are in Mercer Couinty?
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