World's Largest Mining Shovel - The Silver Spade



The Silver Spade was a giant power shovel used for strip mining in southeastern Ohio. Manufactured by Bucyrus-Erie, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the model 1950-B was one of two of this model built, the other being the GEM of Egypt. Its sole function was to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam. Attempts to purchase and preserve the shovel from Consol for $2.6 million fell short, and the shovel was scrapped in February 2007.

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  1. it should have become a museum piece. Vandals destroyed it.
  2. Marion 6360. "The Captain", was bigger. Course it burnt in 1991.
  3. I am Russian and I love Silver spade. I regret that it no longer exists
  4. if it's a spade why did those retards call it a shovel
  5. on a machine that big the shovel sure look tiny
  6. 1st


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