Do you see a bus on this picture? Look closer, it’s near the giant machine which they call a “buck wheel excavator”. Wikipedia says its main purpose is: “to act as a continuous digging machine in large-scale open pit mining operations”.
What can be more larger scale than the biggest world open pit coal mine in Kazakhstan built in Soviet times as the biggest Soviet open pit coal mine? Russian photographer Alexander Popov has traveled there and took these awesome pics and story so we now can take a look to! So let’s see those in detail:
This open-pit mine was built from 1965 to 1979. It had been planned to produce 50 million tons of coal per year and in 1985 it has reached this number for the first time bringing 56.8 million tons of coal in twelve months.
Alexander says that their main purpose of the visit was not the mine itself but the giant bucket wheel excavating machines like the one on the pic above. He says that the German machine builders have made super giant excavators for this place on special order in 1972 and 1973.
What can be more larger scale than the biggest world open pit coal mine in Kazakhstan built in Soviet times as the biggest Soviet open pit coal mine? Russian photographer Alexander Popov has traveled there and took these awesome pics and story so we now can take a look to! So let’s see those in detail:
9 comments to “This is how you mine coal with the world biggest coal mining machine (21 Pics)”
Wow...this is a whole different Pledge of Allegiance than I've ever read! The story of the Pilgrims was what I read (of course I read original documents from the time of the Pilgrims so it was much more involved, but it looks like a handwriting assignment)...so sad the inane drivel our poor kids have to sit through now. Thankfully they are preserving the boards!
What a find ! Hope they end up in a museum.
I certainly am not that old, but when I was enrolled in biology in high school(1952-1956), my science teacher would come in very early in the morning and fill four of these chalk boards with colored chalk drawings of various systems we were studying. It had to take him hours to do it. And, he did it for the entire year. He was an outstanding teacher and probably the reason I majored in biology in college.
It's sad what 'common core' is doing to our youth today! Sorry, but it should never take 55 seconds to decide that 9+6=15!!
Sheri Levy
July 17, 2015 at 12:13 AMThis is so marvelous! Will share with others. Thanks for sharing Betty Outten!
Looks like my first school room, born 1936, My teacher taught 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades all in the same room. There were maybe 20 kids total, but 3 different grades! What great teachers we had in those years, they taught because they loved to teach, now it's a big paycheck and benefits, Not all teachers are like that, so don't quote me as saying I'm down on teachers, but their union has ruined the teaching profession. We still have some great teachers but their hands are tied because of the system.
What a wonderful glimpse into the past. As a 71 year-old retired teacher, I do remember the chalkboards filled with information such as these. I also remember the incredible teachers in my small Southern Indiana town where all 12 grades were housed in one building. During those times, there were no grants or special funding for summer programs; however, my music & art teacher held practice time at her home in the middle of town for those of us in the band. She even had special instructors for the brass and wind instruments; these instructors came every week and we never paid for this. She did. She is the reason I became a teacher.
There are many like her teaching today. However, with all the rules and regulations which are now in place, often those wonderful teachers' hands are tied. What a shame that we have allowed non-educators to make the rules and the tests which are often detrimental to learning.
Linda Detmar Farkas .These boards are amazing, the penmanship, colored pictures, so much information on each chalkboard or blackboard as I used to call them. I taught in a one room schoolhouse for a short while and loved every minute of it. The years that I taught, there were no PE, Art, Music or special area teachers, we taught it all and our students were very well rounded. We could stay on a subject and incorporate other areas into what we were studying. I knew everything about each one of my students, their strong and weak points which helped me to teach them. The busy work on the one board is great, no waste of ditto paper, students could practice handwriting and answer the questions in their composition books. I am glad these boards will be saved.
Big Paycheck??? I don't know where you reside misterdawg but you are sadly mistaken if you think that all teachers have huge take home pay!! I taught for 30 years and just barely made 50,000 by the end of my career. I LOVED my job too and that's why I stayed in it for so long-----if it had been for the money I would have had to leave teaching a long time ago. In Texas teachers do not have unions--they are against the law here.