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Kōrero: Industrial sectors

Mining trucks

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Mining trucks

Each capable of carrying 200 tonnes of ore-bearing rock, these massive trucks are lined up at Mcrae’s goldmine in Otago. Primary sector industries such as mining often have very high costs for physical capital, such as these vehicles, but relatively low costs for labour, such as the drivers’ wages.
 

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Ganesh Nana, Industrial sectors – Primary sector, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23151/mining-trucks (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ganesh Nana, i tāngia i te 7 December 2009.