Thanks-nice work-I had guessed $7-10 million for e

Thanks-nice work-I had guessed $7-10 million for equipment-which may have included the fuel station w protective wall,onsite construction trailer,environmental compliance structures/storage/endangered plant transfer area etc.
Bob has a reputation for being thrifty and rebuilding things himself-which is good in a startup-for costs will otherwise eat you alive.

As you say, the Powerscreen equipment was apparently new as per April 2011 PR etc, as was at least 1 of the crushers (at a cost of 250k reported Nov 2010).
New, some of these other things would've cost a lot more-e,g 1.5 million for a new Trommel (as per grajekk-the trommel was heavily customized w a larger engine,larger belts,custom work on screens also I believe), 1 million Cat 375 (ibid), probably near 1 million for Cat 365 if it were new, 800k for Cat 740 haulers (the largest Caterpillar brand articulated hauler-1 of which I thought was acquired near new-maybe an end of year demo model or just redone very well).

Thought I had seen 2 water trucks in a pic last fall -about the time of drilling holes 69-71-but one of them might have been associated w and attached to the drilling entourage-because Bob only reported 1.