Built in Peoria, the trucks are shipped across the Pacific in pieces and assembled at the mine at a rate of three a month.
The owners of Lonmin, a big platinum company, heaved heavy sighs of relief on September 18th, as workers at its mine at Marikana in South Africa signed a deal that ended a six-week wildcat strike that has left 46 people dead.
Two protesters have been arrested after chaining themselves to machinery at a coal mine at The Wrekin in Shropshire.
The landslide took place at 06:00 local time on Friday at the mine, which lies at an altitude of 4, 600m (15, 000ft), burying 83 workers.
The new forecast takes into consideration the stronger operating performance for the firm, and also includes fourth-quarter scheduled mill maintenance at its mine in Kittila, Finland, lowered operations at LaRonde in northwest Quebec and Creston Mascota in northern Mexico and the expectation of a lower grade cycle at Meadowbank.
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Freeport blamed this drop largely on changes to mine plans at the Grasberg mine in Indonesia, which delayed access to higher-grade material, and a slower-than-expected ramp-up at the Deep Ore Zone underground mind.
In the meantime, the company redeployed its project development team to Leach Pad 3 construction at Dolores mine, as well as an evaluation of potential expansion opportunities at the La Colorada and Dolores mines.
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John Whyatt, a mine inspector, told Selby Magistrates' Court he began his investigations at the mine after being told that two men had been "buried".
Strikes at the mine started two weeks ago when thousands of rock drillers demanded higher wages.
The inquest was told there had been another roof collapse at the mine five days earlier.
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He had worked at that mine for 36 years and he loved the job.
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Freeport has suspended all operations at the mine out of respect for the workers killed, the company says.
In June 2001 a pump at a mine near Madison, W.Va. sprang a leak during the night shift.
Freeport has faced a host of issues at the mine, including significant labor disruptions and now this regulation.
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Mineral extracted at the mine would be transferred underground for processing on Teesside about 35 miles (56km) away.
The situation at the mine is still thought to be volatile, police add.
The displeasure among workers at the mine will only aggravate the situation further.
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For a woman accustomed to adulation, the angry heckling she got at the mine must have been an unsettling experience.
But what of management, whose responsibility it was to ensure the safety of the people who worked at the mine?
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It was unclear how many people had been at the mine, but officials said they did not believe anyone else remained trapped.
Some 5, 000 people also applied for an additional 200 jobs at the mine, said Giorgos Arvanitis, general secretary of the local miners' union.
Once the men have been extracted, they will undergo about two hours of health checks at a field hospital set up at the mine.
Ten people were killed in clashes between rival trade unions at a mine owned by Lonmin, a platinum producer, near Johannesburg in South Africa.
What kind of work environment would cause two loyal employees to cover-up safety issues at the mine where they, their family and friends all worked?
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My most-admired CEOs answer their own email (or at least mine).
Over the past year, UK announced restructuring programmes at the mine and in August it said it was "unlikely" the mine would remain open after 2014.
Two other rescue experts from the northern Atacama region, along with three Navy and one police paramedic, were due to arrive at the mine later Tuesday.
Coal reserves are due to be exhausted at the mine in around five years but an extension is required for the last three of those years.
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