So you got a plane fetish? Ok, heres a little more for ya. You could theoretically land an A380 at MBB, although might have a little trouble turning on the pads at the ends.
Its about a 20km drive for WGP workers from site to Airport, so thats a big difference in making the FIFO process more streamlined. You could be home in Perth within 3 hours of leaving your WGP donga.
Correction, WGP is visible
here on Google Maps..
@wilbur27
Yeah but how are they going to be loaded? To me it seems the low grade stockpiles on the JV temements are not worth hauling . A trucked in load of ore would need to have a min grade of 5gpt to be worth it, keeping in mind the 60/40 profit share arrangement. To get it they will have to selectively chase and mine out each shoot/vein in these near surface high grade deposits?
So at Blue Bar, hypothetically, they could start with a 20m+ deep pit, but you need a dump truck to bring the ore to surface, and can a bin on a quad train take a dump from a 300T Komatsu/Caterpillar truck? I dont think so. They'll probably use smaller equiment I guess.
Ive not worked in a mine, so no idea what the mechanics of the exercise would be, but thats just some thoughts going thru my mind.
@JacobW
At times of war, gold and oil are is doing what they are supposed to do. Giddy on up! A Taiwanese invasion will get you the trifecta!
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