6509 NW 60th St., West Mineral, Kansas. County/parish: Cherokee.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 05, 2018. NRIS 100001945.
1 contributing site. 1 contributing object.Also known as:
Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric power shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas, United States, where it was used in coal strip mining operations. The shovel was designed to dig from 20 to 69 feet (6.1 to 21.0 m) down to unearth relatively shallow coal seams, which would then be mined with smaller equipment.
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