Quarry Magazine: Quarry Mining and Aggregate News

The COLDmist Super Polecat system is designed to move easily around a site, permitting quick repositioning of the unit to take advantage of changing wind...

The Little Duggie gets to work under an operating conveyor.

Safe material recovery and clean up -

Minprovise’s Dugless 900 (fondly known as the “Little Duggie”) is designed to crawl under conveyors and is remote-controlled to allow the operator to stand...

The spiral pulley is part of CPA's range of conveyor pulleys.

Engineered conveyor pulleys -

Conveyor Pulleys Australia (CPA), a subsidiary of TSS, specialises in engineered conveyor pulleys in standard or custom designs.

Gates has a hose that is not only flexible but suited to a wide range of fluids.

Flexible oil, air and water hose -

PremoFlex is the perfect choice for multiple applications requiring a highly flexible, cost-effective industrial hose with maximum resistance to petroleum...

The twin-deck screen has flip-flow Elastica technology on the bottom deck.

Flip-flow twin deck screen -

Terex Finlay’s 883 Spaleck 3D Combi Flip-Flow Screen is a twin-deck high performance recycling waste screen.

In-Depth

Rubber liners absorb the energy from the impacting rock by deformation, then repel it like a spring.

Why rubber makes a good wear liner -

There is no one lining material that is suitable for each and every wear application. Most wear liners that perform well in heavy impact applications will generally perform poorly in an abrasive environment. Subscription required.

News

Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered a budget that has left the minerals industry disenchanted.

Taxing time for minerals sector -

KPMG says the Federal Budget leaves the resources sector confused, while the Minerals Council says it drives up taxes at the wrong time.

The Rammer 5011 is part of the range that will come under Precisionscreen’s wing in Queensland and PNG.

Precisionscreen takes on Rammer range -

Precisionscreen has been appointed the authorised dealer for the Sandvik Rammer hydraulic hammer range in Queensland and Papua New Guinea.

Wagners is one of two construction materials companies to invest in new quarries in the Gympie region.

Wagners and Hy-Tec to create new jobs -

Investments from construction materials companies Hy-Tec and Wagners into new quarry operations in the Gympie region of Queensland will mean more jobs.

Category winners of the Safe Work Australia Awards in Canberra at the end of April.

Construction materials product safety award -

A concrete cleaning product was amongst the winners of the 8th annual Safe Work Australia Awards in Canberra at the end of April.

An idle excavator after demolition work was stopped on a Mayan pyramid in Belize.

Mayan pyramid bulldozed for road fill -

A construction company crew has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road building project.

Around 100 kilograms of explosives could not topple a huge 4000 tonne concrete grain silo in Brisbane.

Silo wins over demolition experts -

Demolition experts in Brisbane were left red-faced after their skills failed to topple a silo last week. Their embarrassment went global as the incident made the news overseas as well as in Australia.

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Editor's Comment

Time to end the holding pattern -

Why is Australian industry waiting out the last few months to the September election, hoping for an inevitable change in government, when it could be preparing for the economic challenges in the years ahead now? Damian Christie scratches his head while pondering this question!