An aluminium buckets producer expects to buy $600$ tons of aluminium in $3$ months time. To hedge the cost of the input the producer goes long futures contracts for $500$ tons of aluminium at the cost of $$3,000$ per ton. In $3$ months time the price of aluminium has fallen to $$2,592$ per ton. What will be the total cost of the $600$ tons of aluminium $($including any money received or spent to settle the futures contracts$)?$ Assume all transaction costs are zero.