I remembered a photo of the loading of the train at Karara in an earlier GBG announcement and went looking for it. Found it in Dec 2012 Qrtly Report.
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Last year GBG exported about 8.4m tonnes. This loader appears to be a Caterpillar 992K which has a bucket load capacity of 19 tonnes. So that is 442,000 trips a year for the loader if always fully loaded.
Or 1211 trips per day if working 24 hours a day.
How many loaders do we need?
Operating cost?
Is there a cheaper method?
I remembered a photo of the loading of the train at Karara in an...
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