The maintenance legacy of Century Mine

At its peak, it was Australia’s largest open cut zinc mine. Throughout its 16-year lifespan, one supplier’s products and services played a major role in the success of MMG’s Century Mine in north-western Queensland. Indeed, the service and maintenance contracts introduced at the mine in 1999 became the basis for Komatsu Australia’s customer support offerings today.
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Barre?s unheralded boarding house keepers

While Barre, Vermont owes much of its current prosperity to the contribution of its granite and stone cutting industries, Bill Langer says there was another group of citizens whose role in maintaining the well being of those workers has largely gone unacknowledged ...
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Cost, productivity optimisation through blast planning, scheduling

An optimised blast plan developed between one of Australia’s largest aggregate companies and a multinational explosives supplier at a Queensland quarry has delivered significant improvements to the operation’s annual extraction plan. Karen Normanton outlines how the two parties were able to optimise blast performance, improve size and shape and reduce costs per tonne of rock.
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The quarry ?mouse? that roared in appeal case

In May 2014, a southeast Queensland quarry operator appealed a regional council’s decision to refuse a greenfield quarry application. This case study explains why the Queensland P&E Court upheld the appeal and why the Court of Appeal also endorsed the P&E Court’s findings.
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