Most purchasing decisions in North America made on site

A recent survey by UK-based information solutions and technologies company Timetric’s Mining Intelligence Centre (MIC) has found that the majority of North American miners still make purchasing decisions for heavy mobile mining equipment at the mine sites rather than at their corporate head offices. Over 100 mine managers were asked to identify specifically where decisions were made for the purchasing of heavy mobile mining equipment, at the mine site, centralised within the country, centralised elsewhere within North America or globally outside of the region. MIC says that in the wake of the current cost reduction measures across the mining industry, it is interesting to discover that across North America the majority of decisions are still made at the mine site, accounting for about 65% of all final decisions. After the mine site, final decisions were most commonly centralised within the country, accounting for 25% of operations.