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Project Summary
 This commercial service consists of a multi-client database that attempts to identify all large surface mining equipment operating throughout the worldwide surface mining industry, compiling the data in a computer file that is adaptable to a variety of different PC-based applications. The project’s developer, The Parker Bay Company knows of no other statistical source that locates, by individual mine/location, more than 40,000 units at more than 1,400 locations in over 70 countries as identified in the Database.
The project developer has created this database utilizing a broad and comprehensive range of published industry information sources, input from participating Original Equipment Manufacturers (who account for more than 85% of the machines covered), personal industry contacts and, most importantly, direct contact with the covered mining operations. The Database has been developed utilizing Microsoft Access® software and each subscribing client is provided with a copy for unlimited internal use (conversion to alternative software is available).
The project was initiated in December 1997 and initially covered large excavating, loading and haulage equipment. Since then, new information has been incorporated  on a continuing basis, and an updating service is provided to existing subscribers to insure accuracy and timeliness of the data. The Database has been broadened to include large crawler and wheel dozers, motor graders, and rotary blast-hole drills.
The Database provides users with the ability to quickly identify excavating, loading, haulage, and ancillary mobile equipment throughout the world on a mine-by-mine basis, as well as the ability to perform a variety of standard database searches. The project developer believes that the Database provides a more extensive mine-specific census of the subject equipment than is available from any other source worldwide.
The initial subscription fee for the complete Database is US$18,000.00 (see Fees/Timeframe/Terms/Conditions for more details) with monthly updates provided for US$375/month (US$4,000/year for 12 calendar months in advance). Subsets of the full Database covering specific products and/or geographic regions are also available. Customized reports, analyses and database files containing data on the covered mines and equipment are available on request.
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