hydraulic dredging

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In mining: Dredging
In pure hydraulic dredging systems, the digging and lifting force is either pure suction, suction with hydrojet assistance, or entirely hydrojet. They are best suited to digging relatively small-sized loose material such as sand and gravel, marine shell deposits, mill tailings, and unconsolidated overburden. Hydraulic dredging has…
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In mining: The seafloor
…drag dredge and the deep-sea hydraulic dredge. The deep-sea drag dredge would be designed to skim only a thin layer of material from the seafloor until its bucket is filled with nodules. The dredge would then be retrieved, the bucket drawn up over a track on the back of the…
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