New reporting software from a weighing system and payload information solutions provider has the potential to simplify and improve the quarrying process – but it’s not too complicated either for pit managers and operators. Johan Smet spoke to Damian Christie about Loadrite InsightHQ.
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Addressing common challenges in drill and blast
An integrated software package is illustrating how safety and productivity can be enhanced and how operations can achieve continuous improvement of drill and blast routines.
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Setting the tone for infrastructure building
The 58th IQA national conference was held in Adelaide, the “City of Churches”, from Wednesday 14 to Saturday 17 October, with over 400 delegates in attendance. Andrew Wilson reports.
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Design of work for health: A human-centred design perspective
Design of work for health is a human-centred design approach that connects safety, health and wellness initiatives. Sara Pazell and Robin Burgess-Limerick explain how this approach speaks to sound leadership and urges the application of systems thinking in organisational design in the construction materials industry.
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Famous quarry film set finds new owner
The site of an almost 200-year-old quarry that has been used as a set for a number of film and television productions has sold for double the recommended auction price.
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Miner receives $1 million tax offset
A coal miner has received $1.1 million to fund geoscience research and development ? funding that is also available to companies in quarrying.
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Why nut and bolt fastened joints fail
They’re often taken for granted but fasteners and other fittings can be vital to the operational life of your machinery. Vaughan Bartleson explains why fasteners work, why some joints fail and how quarries can mitigate problems.
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Industry conference puts productivity in focus
Quarry and construction professionals convened in Brisbane last week to discuss how to improve industry productivity at the 2014 Construction Materials Industry Conference.
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Sochi Olympics fails to meet ?zero waste? pledge
Russia has promised that the Sochi Winter Olympics will be the cleanest games ever ? but the reality is not living up to the hype.
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Walking ? or swimming ? with dinosaurs?
Lark Quarry, in central western Queensland, is famous for being the
world?s only evidence of a dinosaur stampede. But new scientific
evidence suggests the dinosaurs were not necessarily landlubbers.
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