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Bucket-wheel excavators
(BWEs) are heavy equipment used in
surface mining
. The primary function of a BWE is to act as a continuous digging machine in large-scale open pit mining operations. These BWEs were photographed at the
Garzweiler surface mine
in Germany.
Photograph:
Raimond Spekking
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