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Simon Trahair-Davies, partner at Stephens Scown LLP, looks at an interesting and unusual case that reached the English High Court recently.

Any mine or quarry operator knows that an issue always requiring careful planning and attention is what will happen to the site when the operation ceases?
No operator can simply leave an abandoned quarry or pit as a blot on the landscape. The restoration of the site, so that it meets safety and aesthetic standards, is simply one of the obligations of being in the bu

From a bare job site, Volvo Construction Equipment machines helped build the Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport in eastern Australia.

Toowoomba, also known as the ‘The Garden City’ because of its flourishing flower population and 150 parks and gardens, lies in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, located 127km west of Queensland’s capital city, Brisbane. Toowoomba’s population of 165,000 makes it Australia’s second-most populous inland city.

Demand for new crushers and screens is being driven by upcoming road infrastructure projects in India, writes Partha Pratim Basistha.

The Indian government has started awarding fresh road contracts as well as kick-starting stalled projects, following the “tardy” release of contracts a few years back.

Drilling and breaking are vital parts of any quarry operation, and recent successful applications have emphasised this. Patrick Smith and Guy Woodford report

A Rammer 5011 rock breaker has been successfully used to break extremely hard granite on a Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, residential development, while transportability, fuel economy, fast mounting and dismounting all played a major role when Mikael Kauppi, CEO of Swedish company Magnus Schakt was looking for a new drill rig.

After acquiring a previously loss-making opencast limestone mine, the new owner has implemented several changes to turn around the operation. One key modification, among many critical transformations, is the optimisation of drilling and blasting parameters which have, to a large extent, improved the utilisation of equipment, productivity and economics. By Munesu Shoko.

In March 2013, in line with its diversification strategy, Afrimat, one of South Africa’s leading open pit mining companies providing indu

Asphalt is widely regarded as the most recycled material in the world. In the United States alone, 73 million tonnes of hot-mix asphalt is recycled every year; Across across the Atlantic Ocean in the UK, one major highways maintenance contractor is more than doing its bit to maintain asphalt’s world-leading recycled material status, as Guy Woodford discovers.

Delivering the road maintenance contracts for 17 of the London boroughs, as well as holding the North-West contract for Transport for London’s (TfL

Effective water recycling saves quarry bosses money and enables them to meet increasingly tough environmental regulations. Guy Woodford reports.

McLanahan, the US-based water recycling solution specialists, believes that restrictions on extraction, ever increasing costs, and environmental factors related to extraction of water from ground sources and rivers have made recycling and reusing process water vital in aggregate processing. The firm points to the fact that many plants have space constraints, lim

Leading new and retread tyre producers for construction and quarrying machinery are investing heavily in new production techniques and tyre ranges. Guy Woodford reports

Marangoni’s recent €8 million investment in modernising its plant in Rovereto, near Trentino, Italy, shows the off-highway retread tyre manufacturer’s confidence and ambition in the marketplace.

The multimillion euro project includes the installation of the latest generation of Banbury mixer that features rotors with variable interme

Construction of new infrastructure in Kenya has created a huge demand for sand and gravel, forcing some consumers and suppliers to look for these materials in areas considered to have environmentally delicate ecosystems. Shem Oirere reports.

The Indian Ocean seabed and riverbanks have become the latest sources of sand and gravel as the inland quarry sources across the country are reportedly getting exhausted because of uncontrolled and unregulated harvesting of this critical construction material. The sc

Major deals have been completed worldwide for both articulated and rigid dump trucks, with one company claiming an historic order for its equipment.

Bell Equipment UK has completed a major deal with construction materials company Hanson, the first time it has used Bell ADTs and wheeled loaders, which are deployed at the company’s sites producing aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete and building products.

Discussions started after Hillhead 2012, when Robin Piper, Bell Equipment’s national accounts man

Simex is looking at an exciting future packed with product innovation after investing heavily in its production sites and doubling its team of engineers – including a new group dedicated to R&D.

The specialists in hydraulic attachments for earthmoving machines, based near Bologna, Italy, are noted for their high-quality quarry-based products – such as crushing and screening buckets for excavators, front loaders and skid-steer loaders.