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Westrac CAT 6015B Customer Story 02
Westrac CAT 6015B Customer Story 02
So, when General Manager Bart Jones from Bart says the biggest advantage of the 6015B is the
Kalgoorlie-based contractor Hampton Mining and gain in productivity. “In areas where you have to shift
Civil heard that an efficient new Cat hydraulic a bit of dirt reasonably quickly, it’s letting us dig faster.
shovel was about to hit the market, he was keen to We’re able to add another truck into the circuit and
put it to the test. Weighing in at 140 tonnes, the Cat dig more material,” he says.
6015B was bigger than the excavators Hampton
had been using to load ore at the Fortnum gold Another win is fuel savings, with the 6015B
mine and came with an impressive 8.1 cubic metre proving far more fuel efficient than the 120-tonne
rock bucket and a frugal 27-litre engine. diggers it works alongside. “It’s got a 27-litre
engine compared to the 23-litre engines on the
“At Fortnum, we’re doing a cutback on an 120-tonne diggers, but the fuel consumption per
Bart Jones, General Manager
existing pit,” Bart explains. “We’ve been using hour is about the same. Plus, it’s digging more
mostly 120-tonne diggers, but we wanted to add BCMs per hour. So, your cost per BCM fuel wise is
a couple of bigger diggers to work with the Cat actually very impressive.”
777 trucks. At the same time, we didn’t want a
machine that was so big that it could only work on
large ore bodies.”