Power shovel (also stripping shovel or front shovel or electric mining shovel or dipper shovel) is a bucket-equipped machine, usually electrically powered, used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction.

These are also known as face shovel and operates from flat surface, producing upward digging action, excavating and filling the bucket as it climbs. After the bucket is filled, its upper part swings to the dumping position where the bucket is emptied in a waiting truck or on to a stockpile. It then returns to its original position and starts its next cycle

The power shovel consists of boom, dipper stick, the bucket and the mechanism of operation. The boom and stick are connected as shown in figure. The lower end of the boom is hinged to the support bracket of the revolving deck and the upper end, carries the bucket hoist sheaves. The bucket is provided at the end of the dipper stick.