bucket-wheel excavator 1

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a continuous digging machine in large-scale open-pit mining operations (as in surface mining).

  • 1.The primary application of BWEs is in lignite (brown coal) mining, where they are used for soft rock overburden removal in the absence of blasting.
  • a continuous digging machine in large-scale open-pit mining operations (as in surface mining).

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