Lennert van den Boom: Open pit mining in Germany, a 40km2 hole...
Lennert van den Boom: Open pit mining in Germany
Lennert van den Boom: Tagebau Garzweiler
Lennert van den Boom: Lignite mine Garzweiler, Germany
Lennert van den Boom: tiny little shovel next to the bagger 288, the biggest excavator in the world @ strip mine Garzweiler, Germany
Lennert van den Boom: Bagger 288, the biggest excavator in the world @ strip mine Garzweiler, Germany
Lennert van den Boom: The 'big' truck is kinda small compared to the 288 excavator
Lennert van den Boom: max speed 10 km/h
Lennert van den Boom: Thunderbirds are go!
Lennert van den Boom: 96m tall, 45m wide and 215m long
Lennert van den Boom: the enormous bucket-wheel
Lennert van den Boom: Garzweiler II, Lignite mining Germany.
Lennert van den Boom: The lignite cloudmachines @ Neurath Germany
Lennert van den Boom: 5 busy excavators
Lennert van den Boom: a 4800 ha gap
Lennert van den Boom: the mighty 288
Lennert van den Boom: Bagger 288 in maintenance mode, Garzweiler Tagebau