Promoting the quarrying industry in our schools

One of the challenges for extractive operations is to inform local communities about the value and benefits of quarrying. Part of this challenge is to communicate the message early – and what better place to start than in the classroom? Paul Sutton reports.
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Are there quality alternatives to OEM parts?

High quality replacement spare parts and wearparts for machinery in the mining industry are paramount to keeping a company’s productivity consistent, downtime to a minimum and maintenance intervals as short as possible.
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Smart Quarrying: From knowledge to conceptual eras

The IQA has embarked this year on an ambitious futures research project – Smart Quarrying. In the second of a quarterly series of articles about the project, Paul Sutton explains how Smart Quarrying will satisfy the shift that has occurred in business leadership qualities since the turn of the century, and will in part address the skills shortage globally.
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