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Tyre repairs pay off for Macmahon

CRUNCHING the numbers on the costs of sending tyres to site as opposed to fixing them there has led Macmahon down the tyre repair path at the Tropicana gold mine.

A worker repairing a tyre in Macmahon's tyre repair facility at Tropicana.

A worker repairing a tyre in Macmahon's tyre repair facility at Tropicana.

Tropicana is 330km east-northeast of Kalgoorlie on the western edge of the Great Victoria Desert. The large mining truck tyres the mine uses are delivered to Perth, which is 600km from Kalgoorlie. ...

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