To: jpthoma1 who wrote (15184 ) 7/31/2003 12:39:38 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (2) | Respond to They can maintain equipment in Chile, because Terex and other suppliers have located in Chile in order to take advantage of the business there. The Germans who own most of the investment in money to the companies producing copper have smoothed the government pathways. In Asia, you would probably have to deal with Japanese companies (Komatsu, Mitsubishi) as much as you could. What he needs is a rail-line into Mongolia to his site that is good. You will find in rail lines that you pay what the road owner wants to get, not what the brochures say. When Texas gulf wanted to ship phosphate rock to Timmins in 1968 to make fertilizer they were told it was 3 cents per ton mile from Ontario Northland. When they asked how much to ship the super-phosphate acidulated fertilizer out by rail they were told 25 cents a ton mile by the same company. (True story from TG personnel. I know I will get disputes on the price, but it is no exaggeration.) that killed the Ontario fertilizer business and Sherritt Gordon gained strength. (did they bribe the ON people? maybe..) Unless you own the railway, don't ship the expensive stuff. That is why I gave zero chance of the US starting a Vanadium mine in Quebec. Sure, they could get the feasibility and all the setup work done with generous help, but when it came to shipping product through Quebec or Montreal to US destinations, that is where they unions, and crime would block their path. No way to buck Quebec Inc. on that one.
