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dragalina
Any of several very large vehicles used for lifting, especially in the process of mining: basically an excavator which drags its bucket to fill it.
A dragline excavator has a large cutting bucket suspended from the end of a boom. The operator first lowers the bucket mouth down where earth is to be removed, then a second cable—…
In mining with a dragline excavator, the upper half to two-thirds of the alluvium contains too little of the previous metals to warrant washing; hence this part of the overburden i…
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