Bagger 288 - Wikipedia
The Bagger 288 was built for the stone of removing overburden before coal mining at the Hambach stripmine in Germany. It can excavate 240,000 tons of coal or 240,000 cubic metres of overburden daily – the equivalent of a football field dug to 30 m (98 ft) deep. The coal produced in one day fills 2400 coal wagons. The excavator is up to 220 m (721 ft) long (slightly shorter than Baggers 287 and 293) and approximately 96 m (315 ft) high. The Baggers operation requires 16.56 megawatts of externally supplied electricity. I…
Its Lights Out at Germanys Last Coal Mine | Time
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Germany | the voice of coal in Europe
At 46.7 million tonnes, Germany was the EU’s largest hard coal importer in 2018 (32.1 million tonnes of steam coal, 12.4 million tonnes of coking coal and 2.3 million tonnes of coke). The most important sources of imported coal were Russia with a share of 41.1%, followed by the United States, Australia, Colombia, Canada and South Africa.
Hard Coal Mining, Germany - Mining Frontier
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Coal in Germany | Clean Energy Wire
At the moment Germany is still the biggest producer of brown coal but closed down its last hard coal mines in 2018. If the government follows up on the proposal of its multi-stakeholder coal commission, the last coal plants and lignite mines could close in 2038.
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