The machines deployed in the opencast mines, at the crushing and ore preparation plant have to be of matching capacities. At Kudremukh Iron Ore Project, one of the largest opencast mines in India, the capacities of some of the machines are : shovels m 3, production trucks 108 te, front end loaders 10 m 3, electric drills for 310 mm dia. blast holes, gyratory crushers 4000 te/hr.