Breaking, Drilling & Blasting

Hydraulic breakers are proving more popular for primary winning in quarries than ever before. Mike Woof visited Lopardo quarry in ...

Investing in new equipment and using western quarrying techniques is helping one Chinese quarry to boost productivity. Second hand machinery, ...

The drill and blast method is used in many quarries to win stone for crushing, but there are alternatives. Patrick ...

The largest aggregates quarry in Norway is going full speed ahead on expansion plans, with its owners investing 'a lot ...

New heavyweight breakers may be hitting the headlines but it is the higher power to weight ration that is the ...

This September the aggregates industry will be heading to Germany for the 2008 Steinexpo to see the latest equipment innovations ...

Sandvik has been working on building a new approach to training for drill operators, which it claims benefits the overall ...

Advances in drill rig design and automation are helping to improve efficiency of drilling operations in European quarries, but more ...

Blasting in European quarries has an excellent safety record thanks to rigorous checks and training and the latest security initiatives ...