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    P&H 4100A Pictures

    The scale of the equipment you guys are running today makes me feel like an old fighter pilot of the biplane era looking at a fleet of B-1 Bombers! During my own era at Chino Mines at Santa Rita, NM (1976-85), our biggest shovels were the 15 Cu. Yd. P&H's and one 17 Yd. B&E. (Our biggest...
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    Confession is good for the soul...

    Back in the '80s when Kennecott Copper still owned Chino Mines I was a Mining Shift Foreman at the Santa Rita, NM open pit copper mine. After a year as a dispatcher, and another year out in the pit as a junior foreman they assigned me to a turn where I relieved the Dozer Foreman, the Drill...
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