Shovel is a type of excavator set that is used to load hard rocks (and exceptionally soils) and often in open space (open pits)

Shovels are used in strip and cavity mining. In the strip method, the overburden is removed and poured into an adjacent previously mined part, and the mineral material under the overburden is loaded by another machine and taken to another part

Shovels have the ability to dig and load materials located at or above the machine’s stationary level