Production-Machinery+Used

-Cost around $20 million -Seven stories high -One shovel bucket weighs 85 -Used for the removal of overburden and ore during the mining process
 * (Bucyrus) Mining shovel**s:

-Worlds largest truck -These machines can carry up to 400 tonnes of sand - 400 tones of sand can produce 200 barrels of oil -More than 100 have been sold to Alberta oilsands projects -Cost around $5.5 million -Twentry-five feet tall and thirty-two feet wide and forty-seven and a half feet long -It is so large that the truck must be shipped in separate parts to buyer and assembled on site -Can hit up to 42 miler per hour -Engine has 3550 horsepower
 * 797B Caterpillar heavy Hauler Mining Trucks:**

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-Each tire is 15 ft high -Tires cost $50,000-$60,000 -Tires weigh as much as five cars -Tires last around 5,000-7,000 hours
 * 797B Caterpillar heavy Hauler Mining Trucks-Tires:**