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bucket ladder
n (Mechanical Engineering)
a. a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
b. (as modifier): a bucket-ladder dredger.
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Rohr Corp., the North American manufacturer of Rohr's clamshell buckets and
bucket ladder dredge systems based in Cleves, Ohio, has announced the formation of a sales and distribution relationship with Austria's SBM Mineral Processing.
It had previously been thought that the alteration in the dredge's deck slope (trim) caused by movement of the
bucket ladder, when altering digging depth, would reduce the recovery efficiency of the cone concentrators originally planned for the No.1 dredge.
Palmer gives a |General description of some alluvial mining methods used in the tin and gold industry today', focussing particularly on the application of
bucket ladder dredging.
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