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TRACK & WHEEL<br />
Hitachi ex3600-6 Excavator<br />
Delivered to<br />
OceanaGold<br />
On Tuesday October 5, <strong>CablePrice</strong><br />
officially handed over delivery of a new<br />
359-tonne giant mining excavator, costing<br />
nearly $9 million, to OceanaGold at the<br />
country’s largest gold producing operation,<br />
Macraes Flat Gold Mine in Central Otago.<br />
Among those present for the handshake<br />
ceremony was Hitachi director Kiichi<br />
Uchibayashi, from Japan, and <strong>CablePrice</strong><br />
managing director Sean Hashimoto.<br />
The new ultra-large digger replaces as<br />
the frontline machine, a 348-tonne Hitachi<br />
EX3600-5 purchased by OceanaGold in 2005 that has clocked<br />
up over 30,000 hours of operation. In announcing the<br />
purchase in April, general manager of the Macraes operation,<br />
Bernie O’Leary, said “the EX3600-5 excavator has a proven<br />
track record of high productivity and being operator-friendly,<br />
and we look forward to taking possession of a big brother to<br />
the existing EX3600”.<br />
The new Hitachi EX3600-6 arrived via ship into Lyttelton<br />
Port onboard the vessel Madame Butterfly on July 25 from the<br />
Hitachinaka port outside Tokyo, Japan, where the Hitachi mining<br />
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