Open pit mining excavator with a rope shovel - GIF

Open pit mining excavator with a rope shovel.

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Previously:

African sand mining - GIF
Bucket wheel excavator mining coal - GIF
Cat 6030 hydraulic mining shovel on Sleipner dollies - GIF
Dangerous African mining - GIF
Longwall mining - GIF
Mining coal scooper used as snow remover - GIF

It blows my mind that those wire ropes are doing most of the heavy lifting, figuratively and literally. The boom and dipper are as bulky as they are because they share the load, but still. Those ropes are mighty impressive. Steam shovels are the second most graceful of giant machines. The Hulett crane is tops, but there aren't any left.

Neil