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Either Ore Corp is a mining company operating copper and nickel mines in northern Minnesota. It recently purchased a new piece of equipment costing $$1,000,000$ which will be used to load rail cars with ore. The machine is expected to have a useful life of $15$ years or $7,000,000$ tons of material loaded, and has a residual value of $$200,000.$ It loads $600,000$ tons of material in its first year.

What amount of depreciation expense will Either Ore Corp record in year $1$ if it uses the units$-$of$-$production method?

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$$85,714$

$$17,143$

$$66,667$

$$68,571$