Old Strip Mining Pictures of Pit 11 (Mazon Creek)

[Nimravis]

For you viewing pleasure, here are a couple pictures that I took at a friends house showing the Pit 11 area and the type of machines used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[flipper559]

Very Cool Ralph !!  Thanks for sharing !!

 

Phil

[deutscheben]

Thanks for the pics! There are a couple of smaller dragline excavators still working a surface mine not too far from me and even those are imposing. 

[connorp]

Very neat! Any idea what year these were taken?

[Nimravis]

1 hour ago, connorp said:

Very neat! Any idea what year these were taken?

No- I know the newspaper article is from 1982, but the pics are from much earlier.