Videos by topic: Strip Mining

A look at some abandoned strip pits and reclaimed mine sites. This is basically to show the environmental effects and also to show how new measures of mine reclamation are being taken to help restore...

Moving the earth off a seam of coal

History of strip mining in Southeast Kansas and the environmental impacts.

D-11 Cat pushes over burden to L950 letourneau loader with an 18 yard bucket. Loader feeds crusher which sends crushed rock up the belt line, under road to previously mined open pit.Another D-11...

www.cadjunky.com Surface Mining Equipment designed in solidworks 3D CAD Software enabling production with no prototypes

Pioneer Coal Strip Mine in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. This 40 foot seam of coal is said to be the thickest in the world. The front end loader is a letourneau L950 and has a 18yd bucket. A D-11 CAT is...

video for Appalachian Studies class

Santa heard from his friends at United Mountain Defense that the wicked boys at the Office of Stealing Mountains, I mean the Office of Surface Mining had been bad and not doing their job regulating...

East Kentucky residents speak out against an Office of Surface Mining proposed rule change that would lead to more devastating mountain top removal mining and the burial of Appalachian streams at a...

This is the job I used to work at a couple of years back in the hills of Southeastern Kentucky.

At the mouth of the Bras d'Or Lakes in Cape Breton, under the pretext of "cleaning up" an old federal mine site, tourism, fishing, agriculture and our environment are being destroyed as the...

Just a Explosion and a song and some equipment working at the coal mining company I work for

This is an excerpt from our MSHA Typical Surface Mining Equipmenttraining module, which is part of our Surface Miner Training curriculum. Our training features realistic 3D virtual worlds that help...

Cape breton University Student President Scott Thomas decries the negatives of strip mining especially regarding the Tourism and Hospitality sectors.

Boularderie Farmers representative Fraser Hunter tells MLA Cecil Clarke that strip mining uses water needed for farming and causes irreparable damage to precious soil.