Fifteen years ago Cat had no mining trucks or front shovels, nor did it sell any paving equipment in North America.

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With everyone trying to dig and drill at the same time, costs are rising and shortages of such things as huge tyres for mining trucks are hampering progress.

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You'll have to wait 12 months to get your hands on one of its mining dump trucks, the ones that can hold up to 400 tons of ore.

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The price of tyres big enough to fit the mining firms' gargantuan trucks has doubled in recent years, he says, while construction costs for new facilities have increased by half.

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For we use Google Maps in Germany to guide trucks to a mining site.

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Mining company Rio Tinto has turned to driverless trucks to operate mines in Western Australia.

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Introduced to tackle machine theft, it has helped turn Komatsu into the biggest foreign supplier of excavators and dump trucks to China's booming construction and mining companies.

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