The inaugural Women in Quarrying Conference opened on 21 March at the Glen Hotel in Brisbane. Delegates arrived early in anticipation of the event, with some visitors hailing from as far away as New South Wales and Western Australia. Read more
The maintenance legacy of Century Mine
Located at Lawn Hill, 377km north-west of Mount Isa in the Lower Gulf of Carpentaria, MMG’s Century Mine was Australia’s largest open cut zinc Read more
Barre?s unheralded boarding house keepers
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hard-working men developed a booming granite industry in Barre, Vermont. But we should Read more
Major works to drive two-year construction growth
The latest Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) and Australian Constructors Association (ACA) Construction Outlook survey released last month suggests an upturn in transport infrastructure Read more
Deadlines loom for enviro health and safety awards
The National Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Awards are held annually by Cement Concrete Aggregates Australia (CCAA) in order to highlight best practice in Read more
All-in-one crusher with screen
Designed to operate in extreme quarrying conditions, the HQR1112 can function as a primary, secondary or tertiary crusher, providing quarry operators with one machine Read more
Cost, productivity optimisation through blast planning, scheduling
Boral’s Ormeau Quarry is in the northern Gold Coast region of Queensland, in a large zone of meta-greywacke. It supplies high quality aggregates to Read more
The quarry ?mouse? that roared in appeal case
In its original development application lodged in June 2009, Parklands Blue Metal proposed to develop a 98ha hard rock quarry site in Yandina on Read more
Jaw crusher makes big impact in alpine setting
Seewen, in Switzerland’s north-west, is a municipality in the district of Dorneck, about 247km from the capital Geneva.
The town is infamous for a cold Read more
Aussies claim international quarry awards
After a successful inaugural awards program in 2012, global building materials giant HeidelbergCement, the parent company of locally-based supplier Hanson, organised the second Quarry Read more