At the graveyard, BHP digs deep to cut costs FROM the top of - TopicsExpress



          

At the graveyard, BHP digs deep to cut costs FROM the top of what is left of Mount Whaleback, BHP Billiton’s oldest West Australian iron ore mine and arguably the nation’s biggest open-pit mine, the effects of a two-year-old productivity drive that has shaved more than $US1.5 billion ($1.7bn) a year off costs are clear to see. Dozens of giant mining trucks, now surplus to requirements ­because BHP is doing the same tonnage with less, are parked at the top in what mine manager Pat Bourke calls “the graveyard”. READ MORE
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:22:00 +0000

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