Heavy lift and transportation specialist Mammoet has completed its first dragline relocation project in Australia. The Marion 8050 dragline, weighing 2990 tonnes, was jacked up and transported 61 ...

MARION - For six years, the mining machine had sat idle, parked at a mine in Pennsylvania's Somerset County and rusting away. Known in the industry as a Model 7500 dragline, it was made by the Marion ...

BHP Billiton Mitsui Coal Pty Ltd (BMC) plans to have the Marion 8050 dragline moved from Goonyella Riverside Mine to South Walter Creek Mine. According to a planning application, the company wants the ...

Watch this documentary about two of the biggest draglines ever built. The Captain was the first of the big draglines, built by Marion Power Shovel for the Captain Mine in Illinois. It was then ...

BMA is moving the Marion 8050 dragline 77km, from Goonyella Riverside Mine to South Walker Creek Mine. Road restrictions will be in place on the Peak Downs Hwy at Coppabella to make way for the ...

Industrial auctioneers IronPlanet has beaten its sales record for the most expensive machine, by selling a Marion 7820 Walking Dragline for $3m. The 2000 tonne machine was bought by a buyer in North ...

With a bucket capacity of 80 cubic yards (61 cubic metres) and a working weight of 9.1 million pounds (4,000 tonnes), the Marion 8200 dragline is a huge machine. These huge excavators generally work ...

As in any successful business venture, costs have to be kept as low as possible, and using equipment that can do the most work at the least cost is key to achieving this goal. Earthmoving, in ...