700 tonne shovel from O&K

O&K is building its biggest-ever mining shovel for Syncrude Canada. The 700t RH-400 will be able to swing a face shovel bucket of up to 45m3 and will work alongside two RH-200s at Syncrude's Alberta tar sands open-pit mine.

The RH-200s have worked well in temperatures as low as -45¼ C for five years and Syncrude had no hesitation in buying this first new RH-400 at a cost approaching œ7 million.

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