The Silver Spade was a giant power shovel used for strip mining in southeastern Ohio.

Manufactured by Bucyrus-Erie, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Silver Spade was one of two model 1950-B shovels built, the other being its sister ship, the GEM of Egypt.

Its sole function was to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam.

Attempts to purchase and preserve the shovel from Consol to make it the centerpiece of a mining museum exhibit for $2.6 million fell short.

[2] The design is unusual, as it uses a knee action crowd,[3] and only these two Bucyrus-Erie 1950-Bs were fitted with this technology.