Workers in Conroe were gearing up Tuesday to haul a colossal, 63.4-metric ton dragline excavator - essentially, a giant shovel - overnight to a coal mine near Austin. The 130-mile trip to Elgin was to ...

FRANKLIN, Kan. — A walking dragline used decades ago for coal and clay mining in Southeast Kansas is about to go on the move again. This time, with a little help. The entire Page 618 walking dragline ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FRANKLIN, Kan. — The Miners Hall Museum will host a program, “Moving a Giant: Behind the Relocation of the Page 618,” at 2 p.m.

When gold was discovered in Alaska at the end of the 19th century, it was individual miners who initially exploited the resource using picks and shovels and other rudimentary equipment. As easy ...

Lima 2400 wore crawler shoes up to 63 inches wide on its 25-foot-long crawler assemblies. Standard dragline buckets up to 8 cubic yards could be swung on a 120-foot boom. Before the era of hydraulic ...

Antibes, Musée Picasso Graham Sutherland 1998 (42); Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance and the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Graham Sutherland: From Darkness into Light: Mining, Metal ...