insight

3 second hand 789 cat dump trucks on site the fourth due to arrive early next week , the trucks were shipped in from chile,all trucks have had new engines installed as well as a good spit n polish by william adams the local caterpillar dealer. rumour has it that a number of dead machines on site are going to be bought back to life a cat 5130 digger, as well as 4 or 5 cat 785 dump trucks . the pressure is on to do a cutback to get to the orebody, they have had no ore feeding to the mill since monday morning. also rumoured that the ball mill is cracked and is need of major repairs. the mill built back in the 1960s was the rolls royce of its time and is still going strong so a few repairs here and there are inevitable . there is many more millions of tons of iron at savage river now the race to get it out begins.