Video Description
A CAT 992 loading a 777 at Red Dog Mine, Alaska.
A brief video of haul trucks being loaded
and a
view from the cab.
Source:
YouTube
Red Dog Mine
In operation since 1989, Red Dog is a zinc-lead mine located in Northwest Alaska, near Kotzebue, and one of the world’s largest producer of zinc concentrate.
Red Dog Operations is an open-pit truck-and-loader operation, using conventional drill and blast mining methods.
The mineral processing facilities use conventional grinding and sulfide flotation methods to produce zinc and lead concentrates.
Product from the mine is shipped to Teck's metallurgical facilities at Trail, British Columbia, Canada and to customers in Asia and Europe.
Source:
RedDogAlaska.com
Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. is a United States-based corporation headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. Caterpillar is, according to their corporate website, "the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines." Caterpillar produces a wide range of heavy equipment, including the range of Caterpillar bulldozers. Caterpillar's line of vehicles range from tracked tractors to hydraulic excavators, backhoe loaders, motor graders, off-highway trucks, wheel loaders, and agricultural tractors. They are used in construction, road-building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation and material-handling industries.
Caterpillar is one of the thirty companies whose stock is tracked in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is a Fortune 500 company, ranked number 50 in 2008, and first in its industry, with more than $30 billion in assets. Source: Wikipedia, Caterpillar.
Caterpillar 777
The Caterpillar 777 dump truck is a model of large dump trucks, typically used in open pit mining, manufactured by Caterpillar Inc.
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