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Huge mining and earthmoving equipment auction at new US Ritchie Bros site

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is holding a massive mining and earthmoving equipment auction tomorrow, on the second day of the Grand Opening auction at its new permanent auction site in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. More than 1,700 heavy equipment items will be featured in the Raleigh-Durham auction, including more than 300 pieces of mining and earthmoving equipment.
September 25, 2012 Read time: 1 min
318 Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is holding a massive mining and earthmoving equipment auction tomorrow, on the second day of the Grand Opening auction at its new permanent auction site in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.

More than 1,700 heavy equipment items will be featured in the Raleigh-Durham auction, including more than 300 pieces of mining and earthmoving equipment. Mining and earthmoving equipment highlights include more than 60 178 Caterpillar D11 crawler tractors; more than 45 Caterpillar 777 rock trucks, over 40 wheeled loaders; and in excess of 40 underground mining equipment items. Every item will be sold to the highest bidder with no minimum bids or reserve prices.

“We are very excited to be holding the grand opening of our new facilities here in Raleigh-Durham with this huge equipment auction,” said John Fairley, regional sales manager at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers. “We have an unprecedented number of D11s featured. In fact, this is more D11s than we've sold in the past four years of unreserved industrial auctions combined.”

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