wire-line dredging
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method of marine mining
- In mining: Marine beaches and continental shelves
In wire line methods the digging tools or buckets are suspended on a steel cable and lowered to the sediment surface, where they are loaded and retrieved. Grab buckets (going by such names as clamshells and orange peels) consist of a hinged digging device that, in…
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