The bucket is all that remains of Big Muskie, once the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. It tells a ...

Vermeer’s new SM55 surface miner delivers production power in a compact, cab-free design with easy transport, remote control ...

There is no more epic a machine than a mining shovel. Just look at that giant revolving superstructure. That massive undercarriage (somehow still too small). Those bucket payloads registering at 15 to ...

In the sienna-colored curves of Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountains, one of the most rugged and lawless regions in the world, a cavernous, grooved crater gouged out from a hillside shines in the winter ...