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.
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Perlite, which is often used in lightweight plasters and mortars, insulation and ceiling tiles, may yet play a major part in the reduction of power consumption in the years ahead. And as Bill Langer adds, it may also cause some headaches for his local power company!
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None too surprisingly, Gina Rinehart has topped the list of the 10 most influential women in mining but number 10 on the list is no stranger to the quarrying industry.
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Think mining and quarrying have nothing to do with the Easter celebration? Well, think again! It seems tin – not just tin-foiled chocolate eggs – has strong ties with the Messiah.
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A chance encounter with a creepy-crawly gets Bill Langer waxing lyrical about the history of a microscopic organism that has been employed in a wide range of applications, including Portland cement.
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An Aboriginal sacred site near the You Yangs in Victoria’s southwest,
comprising up to 100 basalt stones, is now heading for international
stardom.
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Bill Langer reflects on the history of one of the Roman Empire’s most heavily fortified borders – and how it has defied time and defilement to become a global tourist attraction.
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Lark Quarry, in central western Queensland, is famous for being the
world’s only evidence of a dinosaur stampede. But new scientific
evidence suggests the dinosaurs were not necessarily landlubbers.
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This month, Bill Langer rejoices in the excellent marks his grandchildren recently brought home on their school reports. However, when it comes to rating both the Australian and American report cards for infrastructure, he argues both countries must seriously lift their marks.
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Archaeologists appear to have solved one of the great
construction mysteries of one of the world’s ancient wonders –
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat.
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Australia’s most numerous mining prospectors can show us where new gold
deposits are – and they’re not of the regular two-legged variety,
according to the CSIRO.
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America’s tourist Mecca the Grand Canyon is under scrutiny as geologists
debate its age. This follows a new study that argues it may be older
than first thought.
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