The first commercial petroleum mining at the Athabascan oil sands near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta began at the end of September 1967. German machinery was used right from the beginning . In ...

DUESSELDORF, Aug 18 (Reuters) - RWE has launched an online auction for one of its 22 bucket-wheel excavators, as Germany's largest power producer prepares for a coal-free future, it said. With a ...

DUESSELDORF, Sept 30 (Reuters) - RWE (RWEG.DE), opens new tab has received 45 bids for one of its giant bucket-wheel excavators used in mining that it put up for sale in an online auction earlier this ...

The RWE Bagger 288 excavator is the world's largest land vehicle and is currently moving mountains--or at least one mountain--in Germany where it's in use excavating an open pit coal mine for a ...

The Neyveli Lignite Corporation has overhauled a 27-year-old bucket wheel excavator deployed in Mine-I at a cost of ₹49.24 crore. NLC Chairman-cum-Managing Director Sarat Kumar Acharya inaugurated the ...