LE ROY — After two years of careful, almost full-time work, a model of a Marion Shovel — Model 91 sat next to its full-sized counterpart across from the entrance of the Dolomite Group limestone quarry ...

A steam shovel found embedded in the bottom of Wixom Lake in October 2020 is well on its way to being fully restored. Mike Oberloier, of Beaverton, who now owns the shovel, recently displayed parts of ...

The vintage steam shovel that for the last nine years has sat outside the Nederland Mining Museum took a long, circuitous route to the small Boulder County mountain town. The steam shovel’s first stop ...

Mike Oberloier says a restored wheel from the 1901 “type O” Thew model steam-powered shovel, recovered after 95 years submerged in Wixom Lake, serves as motivation for the Beaverton man to continue ...

Power shovels used to excavate the earth have proved essential to the mining industry, including open-pit and coal mining in the United States, for 150 years. Made up of a boom, dipper stick and ...

(WEYI/NBC News) Flooding in Michigan earlier this week unearthed a relic buried for nearly 100 years. When the Edenville Dam failed and water quickly began draining from Wixom Lake the remnants of the ...