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Codelco recently received a 73yd3 Bucyrus 495HR² shovel for its Ministro Hales copper mine in Chile. It appears to be the very first one in the world. An other website says it costs US$25 billon. The mine will use 4 of these large rope shovels alongside two 52yd3 and one 23 yd3 hydraulic excavators and 39 Caterpillar 797F trucks. Photos comes from the Flickr gallerie of Codelco (and are available in larger size there) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/codelco/with/5496617071/   Notce the twin-side stairs, and the lack of the hydracrowd system. It will be iteresting to see it from the cab side...
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Nice pics of big new mining gear thanks
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Holy crap!!!!! 25 Billion!!!! Great pictures by the way!
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25 BILLION seems way out of line for a machine you sure it's not MILLION
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TomG wrote:Holy crap!!!!! 25 Billion!!!! Great pictures by the way! Could well be true (in pesos), because a coffee at Starbucks in Santiago cost me something like 1,800 pesos a few months ago. Kerst
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Billion for the whole fleet and the mine property?
Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.
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Yes, that sounds pretty expensive ! To my knowledge, such machines were never that expensive a decade ago... The Bucyrus website has been updated with a small photo : must be the same machine :  source link
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Beautiful pics.........a BIG thanks for sharing them here.
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I won't go into my feelings on these machines, but the source I saw for the information said the shovel is considered a $25 million investment.
Brian
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There are 4off 495HR2's, 39off 797F's, 2off electro-hydraulic shovels (suspect RH400, PC8000 or R9800), 8off D11T's, 2off 854K's, 2off 49HR drills and 2off water carts in this new fleet. What you see is just the first shovels and 3 trucks.
If you look closely at the first shovel picture you will see another air filter unit sitting on the ground over behind the shovel painted up ready for one of the other 3 machines.
Yes the little picture on the Bucyrus website is the cab side of the new 495HR2 at Chuquicamata Mine. Chuquicamata had 2off 495HR's before this purchase and a large fleet of P&H shovels.
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Well, I know they have not preformed well in the oilsands...But they sure do have a lot of them in Chile. Seems in hard rock, they do quite well. The P&H shovels are still the "Cadillac" of shovels as far as I have seen and heard.
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