New Skill Challenge: Dragline Operation! 💪 | Letsdig18

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Late last year, the team at Oaky Creek Coal successfully decommissioned Dragline DL02. With 6 kilograms of explosives (yes, the kind you see in action movies), one of the largest pieces of machinery in open cut mining was dismantled. Since the early 1980s, DL02, along with a second dragline DL01, were the backbone of our Oaky Creek Open Cut while mining was in operation until the early 2000s. Now, as part of our progressive rehabilitation strategy, it's time to clear the site so our teams can re