the 17 mile road providing the vital link between the mine and port was graded and surfaced to accommo date the specially designed 60 ton ore hauling trucks a crusher was installed at the mine to reduce the ore to proper size for feeding to u s blast furnaces this installation is one of the largest of its type in the world today stockpiling and screening equipment were erected at both the mine and the port construction records broken with the establishment of the beachhead an efficient team of u s technicians supplemented by a fast ex panding army of local peruvians moved rapidly with a common goal — ore must move by may the result was a record for accelerated construction never before seen in this part of the world these men were dedi cated to proving that sometimes the impossible can be accomplished even sooner steel fingers emerged from the water soon to provide support for a reinforced concrete shiploading dock ex tending 1,000 feet into the bay of san juan at both the mine and the port steel towers and con veyors were erected to provide for efficient handlinj of the millions of tons of iron ore to come from the large deposits at marcona 23