Modern day quarrying and rehabilitation contracts offer quarry operators, governments and local communities opportunities to collaborate on public projects for long-term environmental and aesthetic benefits.
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Victoria’s mountains growing taller
Victoria’s alps are rising each year, according to an 18-month survey conducted by the Eastern Victoria Geoscience Initiative.
The 629km stretch of mountains from Benalla, Victoria
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Earth Resources releases new regulations for Victoria’s quarries
Victoria’s quarry sector is set for a shake-up following Earth Resources regulation update to the State’s extractive industries.
Introduced in January, the regulations address
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Particle size outweighs chemical properties in aggregate strength
Geophysicists and fluids mechanics experts have provided new insight into how tiny ‘bridges’ help particles form aggregates, in a discovery that could have applications in cement production and construction.
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Toeing the line: Blasting practices to control quarry floors, correct toes
It is all too easy to blame geology for the toe and elevated floor problems in quarries. Anthony and Calvin Konya explain how the quality of explosives and other factors can contribute to inconsistent, unsatisfactory blast outcomes – while outlining measures that will keep these factors within the correct margins of human error.
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UK leaders back UNESCO bid for Welsh slate landscape
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has thrown his support behind a bid for a series of slate quarries in northwest Wales to receive UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
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Melting rock models predict mechanical origins of earthquakes
Engineering academics have devised a model that can predict the early mechanical behaviours and origins of earthquakes in multiple types of rock.
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Doubt over fossil findings could aid future Mars missions
Research that suggests structures found within ancient rocks may be mineral deposits instead of fossils may aid in the search for extra-terrestrial life.
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Site presents naturalist with granite keepsake
A quarry has paid the world’s foremost naturalist Sir David Attenborough the highest compliment after he recently professed his fondness for an igneous rock found in the English midlands.
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Magnesium cement breakthrough could cut construction emissions
Australian researchers have developed a new magnesium-based “green cement” by overcoming water resistance issues that have traditionally limited its use.
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