Jim, p6, sorry for late response. Yes I was at Ilo for just over eighteen months. I was a site manager, we were installing-erecting a new drag line as well as some other infrastructure for Anglo American. The place itself was terrible though we would get two weeks in Santiago-Valpo or if you wanted B.A. after each month which was seven days per week straight of twelve hours, so the old WCSA behaviour was on for young & old. Still used to go to the Skandi & Yakkos bars in Valpo + all the ones we knew in B.A. No one was shipped home when I was there, they were flown to their home country generally. Many when they completed a contract just renewed. When our contract was up my mate & I hitched up to Panama via Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador a terrific trip with many adventures. Then on through Central America to Mexico to Baltimore US. Here we were to work in the office for six months. From there to Jamaica to set up a bauxite mine. Now that was just so good, another eighteen months contract though blew out to two years. Many a story from that project. It was there I cut back on the booze-boozing as I was informed by the great Polish Project Director that "I now had responsibilities." (: The shenanigans on mine sites in those days were every day, not not just when alongside. In the main there were 'wet canteens' which served beer wine etc at lunch & dinner then of course during the evening.