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So many times that my memories are worn. There was more than just the coal trains. There was that giant shovel. Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel. And they tortured the ...
That’s because in my hands I’ll be holding a supreme weapon: an old steel coal shovel. There’s no finer tool for the task of shoveling snow—especially when that “snow” is in fact that ...
Power shovels used to excavate the earth have proved essential to the mining industry, including open-pit and coal mining in the United States, for 150 years. Made up of a boom, dipper stick and ...
SYDNEY—Miners are shoveling more metallurgical coal onto a global market already awash with the steelmaking commodity, delaying any recovery in prices that are at multiyear lows. BHP Billiton ...
WEST MINERAL, Kan. (AP) – A historic coal mining shovel that was hidden under bramble for more than 70 years has gone on display in southeast Kansas alongside its more well-known successor ...
Rising Tide said in a statement that 20 of the group had climbed onto the train to unload the coal with shovels, while another 30 provided support. Police said 47 activists were charged with "rail ...