used with excavation equipment of various types particularly draglines for earth moving mining equipment the mining system 1000 utilizes wire ropes with a diameter between u00bc inches and 7 inches the wire rope can be a single or multi stranded and are made of steels alloys of steel or combinations thereof in the mining system 1000 termination 1001 is disposed on one end of dump rope 1020 as shown termination 1001 is engaged with dump rope socket 1002 dump rope socket 1002 connects to a bucket rigging device thru drag rope socket 1004 sockets such as those generally shown in fig5 and fig7 or any other sockets known to be compatible in the art may be used as a dump rope socket or a drag rope socket referring to the socket of fig7 as an example drag rope socket 1004 has ears 118 and bushing 185 with a hole 180 the sockets are connected in operation by aligning the ears of the dump rope sockets 1002 with the hole of the bushing of the drag rope socket 1004 when the three holes are aligned a throughpin is inserted to connect the ears of the dump rope socket 1002 to the upper hole in the bushing of the drag.