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Rock & Dirt’s annual Auction Results, Market Trends and Evaluations book is widely distributed at the Florida Auctions in February, mailed to the highest volume buyers in the United States, sent to dealers that advertise in Rock & Dirt / RockandDirt.com, and will be distributed at ConExpo in Las Vegas - March 2014.  This book has a long “shelf […]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers has announced that it will be holding its first unreserved public auction in China during Spring 2013. Although relatively new to the Chinese heavy equipment market, unreserved industrial auctions have been a quick and easy method for equipment buyers and sellers to conduct business on a global scale. And for more than […]

Rock & Dirt’s annual Auction Results, Market Trends and Evaluations book is widely distributed at the Florida Auctions in February, mailed to the highest volume buyers in the United States, and is sent to dealers that advertise in Rock & Dirt / RockandDirt.com.  This book has a long “shelf life”; buyers refer to it throughout […]

Euro Auctions, the UK’s largest auctioneers of construction machinery and industrial equipment, announces its continued global expansion with the acquisition of a new auction site in Newnan, near Atlanta, Georgia, USA, just one year after the opening of its previously new auction site in Brisbane, Australia. Euro Auctions has a acquired the freehold of a […]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world's largest industrial auctioneer, sold more than US$76 million of trucks, earthmoving and mining equipment during the Company's two-day Grand Opening auction in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina on September 26 and 27, 2012. A ribbon-cutting ceremony held on the morning of Day One of the auction (September 26) […]

Big opportunity for mining industry: selection of equipment for the September 27, 2012 auction includes 80+ crawler tractors, 30+ rock trucks, 30+ wheel loaders and more! First time world's largest industrial auctioneer sells 60+ D11 crawler tractors in one auction; more D11's than the Company has sold in past four years combined Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers […]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers sold millions of dollars of heavy equipment and trucks at its unreserved public auctions last week, including a CA$50 million (close to US$49 million) auction in Edmonton, Alberta  (June 13 & 14) and a US$41 million auction in Houston, Texas (June 12 & 13), as well as a grand opening auction in Chehalis, Wash. […]