The Oxbow Mine. Sounds like something out of an old western, but it’s really the next step in maintaining an uninterrupted stream of electricity for your homes and businesses. A dynamic DeSoto Parish ...

FRANKLIN, Kan. — A walking dragline used decades ago for coal and clay mining in Southeast Kansas is about to go on the move again. This time, with a little help. The entire Page 618 walking dragline ...

More than 700 tires rolling in unison will deliver BNI Coal’s 9.5 million-pound Liberty dragline to its new site. Using a method only done three or four times nationwide, BNI Coal is moving Liberty ...

FRANKLIN, Kan. — For more than 60 years, a Page 618 Walking Dragline has been working to dig coal on land in northeastern Cherokee County — or just sitting on that land. Early in 2023, this ...

Workers in Conroe were gearing up Tuesday to haul a colossal, 63.4-metric ton dragline excavator - essentially, a giant shovel - overnight to a coal mine near Austin. The 130-mile trip to Elgin was to ...

HAZEN - When the nation's only synthetic fuels gas plant went "black" for a first-ever top to bottom tune up two weeks ago, another big player in the picture was given a well-deserved break.

COALPORT — The recent acquisitions of two dragline models topped the agenda of the Coalport Area Museum Commis-sion meeting held Aug. 20. Donated to the museum by the daughters of the late Leslie ...

MANSFIELD, La. -- Officials at AEP-Swepco say a 44-year-old Robeline man died when he became tangled in the tracks of a huge dragline used for surface mining.They say Stanley Nolen Freeman was killed ...

A dynamic DeSoto Parish power plant—fueled by a brownish coal called lignite—is keeping two area utility companies in business and contributing to the local economy. Recently, SWEPCO moved a gigantic ...