The ideal tailings management system produces the correct volume of process water at the best quality and tailings with the right characteristics, while minimising the impact of waste solids on the site’s function. The key to getting it right, Stewart Reeve explains,
is to understand the nature of your tailings.

When Doug Prosser first approached Miriam Watters for an interview, her immediate reaction was surprise, peppered with modest protests that there were many others in the quarry industry more worthy and interesting. Yet, as Doug explains, Miriam is herself a woman with a very worldly story.

A Melbourne based rail maintenance contractor has successfully collaborated with a Commonwealth Government initiative to develop new operating systems to increase management's control over operational processes and improve its marketing.

Drawing on its experience in the UK and North American markets, a multinational engineering services support company discusses a new model of fleet management that can promote productivity and efficiency and simplify the costs of ownership.

A Western Australian explosives supplier is offering its medium size to large customers a novel solution to planning and controlling their own blasting schedules. Mandy Parry-Jones spoke to Johnex national business manager Kerry Hughes.

The Bli Bli hard rock quarry, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, is within 2.7km of the city of Nambour and surrounded by the Parklands Forest Reserve. How does a quarry like this plan and design a non-standard blast without disrupting local fauna and flora, the neighbouring community and its own critical infrastructure?

A system employed for permanent vibration monitoring in blasting building foundations has positive ramifications for blasting techniques in quarries.

An Argentinian drilling contractor has successfully combined the workload of an Atlas Copco drill rig and the Powercrusher mobile range.

The new MD5150 tracked dril rig can reduce costs, cycle times and improve productivity.

As the quarry industry has become more regulated, the treatment of tailing and process water has grown more intricate. Jim Hankins considers the role paste technology has played in tailings management in the mining industry and argues why it could also be adapted for quarrying.

A Queensland raw materials producer's new sand washing plant has impressed from the get go.

A research program being undertaken by a Cardiff University engineering department has clearly demonstrated that good quality sand can be manufactured from surplus crusher dust and used as a replacement for natural sand. Diane Gardner, Martins Pilegis and Bob Lark explain.