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March 9, 2012
New pump technology is increasing flow rates, reaching greater heads and improving solids handling. ABE looks at the benefits for quarries. Managing…
March 9, 2012
Reducing human interaction with machinery through greater automation is helping to deliver improved safety for quarry operators. Long gone are the…
March 9, 2012
Quarry operators with a long-term outlook still consider rigid dump trucks to be the most cost effective solution for hauling. Rigid dump trucks are…
March 9, 2012
Investment in new drilling rigs and breakers has helped one Vietnamese quarry avoid closure. ABE reports. Gaining permission to extract rock by…
March 9, 2012
Maintaining tyres is an essential part of minimising operating costs as well as improving machine service life. The importance of tyre maintenance to…
March 9, 2012
While demand for construction aggregates has been affected by the global recession, the call for marble appears to be unabated. Claire Symes visited…
March 9, 2012
Exports, the backbone of the German economy, have been hit hard by the recession, and in the quarrying industry there is a mixture of pessimism and…
March 9, 2012
Advances in technology are helping to deliver both improved hole straightness and BLAST detonations for better fragmentation. No matter how carefully…
March 9, 2012
The European Commission has adopted new regulations to toughen up the control of explosives for civil use. Robert Camp looks at the implications for…
March 9, 2012
Despite efforts, the EU's target to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010 (the International Year of Biodiversity) will not be reached. The UEPG…
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