A delivery of two new Komatsu machines to Coonamble Shire in the New South Wales central west has delivered higher productivity, significantly lower fuel consumption and better operator acceptance compared with the machines they replaced.
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Boral Yallourn North set to close
The jobs of nine Boral Quarries employees in Yallourn North, eight
kilometres northeast of Moe, Victoria, are under threat, with the
business' closure looming within weeks.
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L is for Lava
In his continuing alphabetical ruminations on quarrying terms, Bill Langer focuses on lava, a term whose origins are rooted as much in water as in fire.
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K is for Potassium
In his ongoing A-Z of quarrying terms, Bill Langer explains how potassium came to earn the chemical symbol of K and how it today still plays a fundamental role in sustaining the human condition.
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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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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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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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The elements of surprise
As we close out the year, Bill Langer acknowledges some of the elements on the Periodic Table, which was first formulated 150 years ago.
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Steel: A global product for the US market
In 2018 the USA imposed steel tariffs on all but four countries outside North America (including Australia). Bill Langer explains the importance of the ingredients that make up US steel production – and why tariffs on imported resources don’t perhaps promise the jobs boom that the Trump administration is hoping for …
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