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Spending $2,400 a month to keep a truck running in a mine

Michael Allan McCrae | July 15, 2011 | 10:24 am Australia Iron Ore 

BBC's Jeremy Clarkson, a car enthusiast who hosts the show Top Gear, ran a documentary on an underground mine in Kalgoorlie, Australia, and learned about the exceptional wear-and-tear exacted on the vehicles. "Here, 2,700 feet down there are machines that...

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