Curator's note | Large buckets or dippers such as this could contain up to 400 bushels of soil and rocks. The overburden from strip mining is now saved for use in the eventual reclamation of the mine site. |
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Title | Coal Mining - Shovel |
Date | [ca. 1930?] |
Physical extent | 1 photograph : b&w |
Scope and content | Shovel or bucket of a giant drag-line stripping the overburden (layer of soil) to lay open seams of lignite coal for open pit mining. Man stands beside the shovel. |
Repository | Saskatchewan Archives Board |
Fonds/collection | Saskatchewan Archives Board Photo Collection |
Retrieval information | Regina Office Photograph Collection, R-A8487 |
Occupation(s) |
Miners and mining - coal |
Theme(s) |
Mining |
Database ID | 36796 |