
3 Technologies in Exploration, Mining, and Processing ...
Surface mining equipment is similar to construction equipment (, scrapers, bulldozers, drills, shovels, frontend loaders, trucks, cranes, draglines). Surface mining today is characterized by very large equipment (, trucks that can haul more than 300 tons of rock, loading shovels with buckets greater than 36 cubic meters, draglines with buckets greater than 120 cubic meters), and ...