Massive mining machine
PA Auckland New Zealand’s biggest hydraulic excavator, weighing 328 tonnes, will start moving nine million cubic metres of earth at Coalcorp’s Huntly mine next month.
The giant excavator — one of seven in the world — arrived from Japan in parts and was loaded on to 12 trucks for the trip to Huntly. The excavator has an 18 cu m bucket capacity and three 150-tonne dump trucks had to be bought to carry away the diggings. The digger has been brought in to dig a huge crater to give miners access to a coal seam and the work is expected to take two years, creating a hill on one side and a hole on the other. The hole will eventually be flooded to create a recreational lake. The $4.5 million machine will replace a much smaller front-end loader.
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Press, 28 December 1988, Page 3
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