"Giant Shovel on I70"Ohio Strip Mine Fight: 1973 | The ...
May 31, 2017· Surface mining existed as well, but it wasn''t until the big shovels came on in the 1940s and 1950s that strip mining began to take a larger portion of the state''s annual coal production. Generally it is economic to strip mine when there is a 20:1 ratio of overburdentocoal seam, meaning, for example that a threefoot coal seam can be ...