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The world's largest excavator weighs over 14 tons, is equivalent to a 30-story building, and can excavate up to 240 cubic meters per day.
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (726+ words) The world's largest excavator continues to impress in 2026 and holds a record that will be difficult to surpass. With more than 14 thousand tons, dimensions that surpass skyscrapers and a daily excavation capacity of 240 thousand cubic meters, Bagger 293 represents one of…...
To extract coal at a continuous industrial pace, China operates longwall faces up to 301 meters wide, panels exceeding 4,4 km in length, mining heights of up to 7 meters, and daily advances exceeding 10 meters, creating underground mines where the ceiling collapses in a controlled manner over square kilometers.
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (514+ words) The longwall method consists of excavating a continuous coal front, temporarily supported by'hundreds of mobile hydraulic propsAs the mining front advances, these supports are moved, and the already mined area behind them is left for mining.'controlled slaughterforming what is…...
Why do 60% of meteorites found on Earth turn up in Antarctica?
4+ week, 1+ day ago (722+ words) A Antarctica holds 60% of all meteorites ever found on Earth.Even though it's not the place where most space rocks fall from the sky, the deciding factor is the ease of identification, the natural preservation, and the constant movement of…...
Measuring 220 meters deep, this giant hole left by an iron mine has become a turquoise lake and could now be transformed into a clean energy battery in Canada.
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (886+ words) Just minutes from downtown Marmora, in eastern Ontario, an industrial crater created by iron ore mining has become a turquoise lake that catches the eye of passersby. The site is known as Marmora Mine, or Marmoraton Mine, and today it…...
Why do divers risk their lives up to 300 times a day to extract sand from African rivers that supply 60% of the concrete used in the world?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (927+ words) A sandIron, the most mined material in the world, underpins global concrete production, with 50 billion tons produced annually, drives construction and exports, and puts pressure on rivers in Cameroon, China, Cambodia, and India, according to mining, market, and environmental impact…...