Chris nailed it pretty much there Jerry, Mt Keith is a BHP property and mines nickel, they had a 50 strong fleet of 793 trucks there, biggest fleet of 93,s in Australia and with the GFC nickel went down the gurgler. Was an alliance contract whereby BHP owned the majority of the gear and Theiss Contractors ran it, changed back to owner mining in Feb this year and then the downturn really hurt them, but not nearly as much as there brand new nickel mine Ravensthorpe in southern West Australia. This mine just came on line about 12 months prior to the GFC and had budget over runs for construction by 100,s of millions and when the GFC hit they mothballed it!! Total cons cost was somewhere in the order of $2 billion i think.
Now Felix will do well at Moolarben, they can free dig pretty much to the very thick coal seam they have, they have purchased a predominately Komatsu fleet and have chosen Liebherr excavators, the Komatsu order is being touted as the single biggest order in Australian history for them and i have heard somewhere in the value of $250 million!!