AUSTRALIA know best .
Though they are on the same latitude , Brazil and Western Australia are very different environments . The most apparent difference is the weather : very rarely is a WA project held up by rain , whereas North of the Amazon River , annual rainfall is measured in meters as opposed to millimeters , most of it falling between January and May . Generally , service providers simply shut down during these months , but MACA understands that the primary goal of every miner in the world is to move ore , and that for every ton of ore delivered to the stockpile results in seven or eight tons of waste matter that has to be shifted . “ It was hard getting things moving last year ,” said Wallace . “ One truck with a flat tire sat submerged in mud up to its front bumper for eight weeks . Our focus was to safely establish haul roads and operating systems so we could operate through the wet season .”
With Tucano well under way , MACA started its second Brazil contract in November 2015 : a five-year deal to support Avanco Resources at its Antas project in the
Wet season at Tucano site